Current methods of evaluating the degree of diabetic retinopathy are highly subjective and have no quantitative standard. To objectively evaluate the slight changes in tissue structure during the early stage of retinal diseases, a subjective interpre...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
May 31, 2020
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Retinal vessel segmentation (RVS) helps in diagnosing diseases such as hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, and others. Convolutional neural networks are widely used in RVS tasks. However, how to comprehensively evaluate ...
PURPOSE: To evaluate the role of ensemble learning techniques with deep learning in classifying diabetic retinopathy (DR) in optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) images and their corresponding co-registered structural images.
Translational vision science & technology
Mar 24, 2020
PURPOSE: In cases of optic disc swelling, segmentation of projected retinal blood vessels from optical coherence tomography (OCT) volumes is challenging due to swelling-based shadowing artifacts. Based on our hypothesis that simultaneously considerin...
This paper proposes a new supervised method for blood vessel segmentation using Zernike moment-based shape descriptors. The method implements a pixel wise classification by computing a 11-D feature vector comprising of both statistical (gray-level) f...
Hypertension is the leading risk factor of cardiovascular disease and has profound effects on both the structure and function of the microvasculature. Abnormalities of the retinal vasculature may reflect the degree of microvascular damage due to hype...
Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
Mar 4, 2020
In the early diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy, the morphological attributes of blood vessels play an essential role to construct a retinal computer-aided diagnosis system. However, due to the challenges including limited densely annotated data, inte...
Translational vision science & technology
Feb 14, 2020
PURPOSE: Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), a leading cause of childhood blindness, is diagnosed by clinical ophthalmoscopic examinations or reading retinal images. Plus disease, defined as abnormal tortuosity and dilation of the posterior retinal blo...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Jan 16, 2020
BACKGROUND: Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is one of the leading causes of blindness globally. Earlier detection and timely treatment of DR are desirable to reduce the incidence and progression of vision loss. Currently, deep learning (DL) approaches have...
PURPOSE: To validate the efficacy of a fully automatic, deep learning-based segmentation algorithm beyond conventional performance metrics by measuring the primary outcome of a clinical trial for macular telangiectasia type 2 (MacTel2).