Neovascularization Detection on Optic Disc Region Using Deep Learning

Cesar Carrillo-Gomez, Mariko Nakano, Ana Gonzalez-H.Leon, Juan Carlos Romo-Aguas, Hugo Quiroz-Mercado, Osvaldo Lopez-Garcia

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Abstract

Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is one of the biggest eye diseases affecting the worldwide population. The DR presents several damages in the retina depending on its grade of advance, although the damages are asymptomatic in almost all cases. The presence of neovascularization (NV) is considered as the worse stage in the DR, and the patients of this stage require urgent treatment to avoid partial or total blindness. Timely detection of the new vessels in the retina can lead to an adequate treatment to avoid vision loss. In this work, we present automatic detection of neovascularization in the optic disc region (NVD) using a deep learning algorithm. We evaluate several deep neural networks (DNNs) to classify between health optic disc region and NVD. The better DNNs are DenseNet-161 and Efficientnet-B7, which show 93.3% and 92.0% accuracy and 89.5% and 84.2% in sensitivity, respectively. In the computational complexity, DenseNet-161 has a lower number of trainable parameters than that of Efficientnet-B7. To train the DNNs appropriately, we construct a labeled dataset from one of the largest public datasets, bounding NV regions in the retinal images.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPattern Recognition - 13th Mexican Conference, MCPR 2021, Proceedings
EditorsEdgar Roman-Rangel, Ángel Fernando Kuri-Morales, José Francisco Martínez-Trinidad, Jesús Ariel Carrasco-Ochoa, José Arturo Olvera-López
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages111-120
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9783030770037
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
Event13th Mexican Conference on Pattern Recognition, MCPR 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 23 Jun 202126 Jun 2021

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume12725 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference13th Mexican Conference on Pattern Recognition, MCPR 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period23/06/2126/06/21

Keywords

  • Automatic diagnostic
  • Deep learning
  • Deep neural networks
  • Diabetic Retinopathy
  • Neovascularization

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