# Improved Support Vector Machine based on CNN-SVD for vision-threatening diabetic retinopathy detection and classification

*PRI Rank #5 · Topics and Trends in Most Cited Retinal Diseases and Treatments Papers, Class of 2026*

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| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Rank | #5 |
| 18m citations | 84 |
| Journal | PLoS ONE |
| Year | 2024 |
| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0295951 |
| Corresponding authors | Anas Bilal, Azhar Imran, Talha Imtiaz Baig, Xiaowen Liu, Haixia Long, Abdulkareem Alzahrani, Muhammad Shafiq |
| Institution | Hainan Normal University, China |

**Ranking page:** [Topics and Trends in Most Cited Retinal Diseases and Treatments Papers, Class of 2026](https://pri.pepkio.com/top-papers/retinal-diseases-and-treatments/2026)

**Paper link:** [10.1371/journal.pone.0295951](https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0295951)

## Topics

Diabetic retinopathy · Hierarchical Block Attention (HBA) · HBA-U-Net · Hybrid deep learning model · Improved Support Vector Machine-Radial Basis Function (ISVM-RBF) · attention mechanism in image segmentation · Fundus image · Diabetic retinopathy classification · IDRiD dataset · Channel-wise attention mechanism · spatial attention · Feature extraction · Decision Tree classifier · k-nearest neighbors classifier · Image preprocessing · Feature extraction · Diabetic retinopathy diagnosis · multi-stage classification strategy · Ophthalmic disease diagnosis · Diabetic retinopathy classification

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