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We use an ensemble of classifiers such as support vector machine, random forest, and Adaboost classifiers that use the hierarchical feature maps obtained at every pooling layer of a convolutional neural network (CNN) for training. The feature maps are generated by applying the filters to the output of the previous layer. Lastly, we predict the class label or the grade for the given test diabetic retinopathy image by considering the class labels of all the ensembled classifiers. We have tested our approaches on the E-ophtha dataset for the classification task and the Messidor dataset for the grading task. We achieved an accuracy of 95.8% and 96.2% for the E-ophtha and Messidor datasets, respectively. 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