Abstract
Retinal swelling due to the accumulation of fluid is associated with the most vision-threatening retinal diseases. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is the current standard of care in assessing the presence and quantity of retinal fluid and image-guided treatment management. Deep learning methods have made their impact across medical imaging, and many retinal OCT analysis methods have been proposed. However, it is currently not clear how successful they are in interpreting the retinal fluid on OCT, which is due to the lack of standardized benchmarks. To address this, we organized a challenge RETOUCH in conjunction with MICCAI 2017, with eight teams participating. The challenge consisted of two tasks: fluid detection and fluid segmentation. It featured for the first time: all three retinal fluid types, with annotated images provided by two clinical centers, which were acquired with the three most common OCT device vendors from patients with two different retinal diseases. The analysis revealed that in the detection task, the performance on the automated fluid detection was within the inter-grader variability. However, in the segmentation task, fusing the automated methods produced segmentations that were superior to all individual methods, indicating the need for further improvements in the segmentation performance.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 8653407 |
Pages (from-to) | 1858-1874 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Journal | IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging |
Volume | 38 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 2019 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Manuscript received November 13, 2018; revised February 13, 2019; accepted February 17, 2019. Date of publication February 26, 2019; date of current version July 31, 2019. The work of H. Bogunović, S. Klimscha, S. M. Waldstein, B. S. Gerendas, and U. Schmidt-Erfurth was supported in part by the Christian Doppler Research Association, in part by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs, and in part by the National Foundation for Research, Technology and Development. The work of F. Venhuizen and C. I. Sánchez was supported in part by the MD fonds, in part by the LSBS fonds, and in part by the OOG fonds through UitZicht. The work of K. Jeon, S. H. Kang, and H. S. Park was supported by the Korean Government through the National Institute for Mathematical Sciences under Grant B18130000. (Corresponding author: Hrvoje Bogunović) H. Bogunović, S. Klimscha, S. M. Waldstein, B. S. Gerendas, and U. Schmidt-Erfurth are with the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Ophthalmic Image Analysis, Department of Ophthalmology, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria (e-mail: hrvoje.bogunovic@ meduniwien.ac.at).
Funding Information:
The work of H. Bogunovi?, S. Klimscha, S. M. Waldstein, B. S. Gerendas, and U. Schmidt-Erfurth was supported in part by the Christian Doppler Research Association, in part by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs, and in part by the National Foundation for Research, Technology and Development. The work of F. Venhuizen and C. I. S?nchez was supported in part by the MD fonds, in part by the LSBS fonds, and in part by the OOG fonds through UitZicht. The work of K. Jeon, S. H. Kang, and H. S. Park was supported by the Korean Government through the National Institute for Mathematical Sciences under Grant B18130000.
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Keywords
- Evaluation
- image classification
- image segmentation
- optical coherence tomography
- retina