Joint optic disk and cup segmentation for glaucoma screening using a region-based deep learning network.

Journal: Eye (London, England)
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Abstract

OBJECTIVES: To develop and validate an end-to-end region-based deep convolutional neural network (R-DCNN) to jointly segment the optic disc (OD) and optic cup (OC) in retinal fundus images for precise cup-to-disc ratio (CDR) measurement and glaucoma screening.

Authors

  • Feng Li
    Department of General Surgery, Shanghai Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)-INTEGRATED Hospital of Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China.
  • Wenjie Xiang
    School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200093, China.
  • Lijuan Zhang
    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Changchun University of Technology, Jilin 130012, China.
  • Wenzhe Pan
    School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200093, China.
  • Xuedian Zhang
    School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200093, China.
  • Minshan Jiang
    School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200093, China. jiangmsc@gmail.com.
  • Haidong Zou
    Department of Ophthalmology, Shanghai General Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Ocular Fundus Diseases, Shanghai Engineering Center for Visual Science and Photomedicine, Shanghai, China.