  We propose a convolution neural network based algorithm for simultaneously
diagnosing diabetic retinopathy and highlighting suspicious regions. Our
contributions are two folds: 1) a network termed Zoom-in-Net which mimics the
zoom-in process of a clinician to examine the retinal images. Trained with only
image-level supervisions, Zoomin-Net can generate attention maps which
highlight suspicious regions, and predicts the disease level accurately based
on both the whole image and its high resolution suspicious patches. 2) Only
four bounding boxes generated from the automatically learned attention maps are
enough to cover 80% of the lesions labeled by an experienced ophthalmologist,
which shows good localization ability of the attention maps. By clustering
features at high response locations on the attention maps, we discover
meaningful clusters which contain potential lesions in diabetic retinopathy.
Experiments show that our algorithm outperform the state-of-the-art methods on
two datasets, EyePACS and Messidor.
