OCT Fluid Segmentation using Graph Shortest Path and Convolutional Neural Network

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2018 Jul:2018:3426-3429. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2018.8512998.

Abstract

Diagnosis and monitoring of retina diseases related to pathologies such as accumulated fluid can be performed using optical coherence tomography (OCT). OCT acquires a series of 2D slices (Bscans). This work presents a fully-automated method based on graph shortest path algorithms and convolutional neural network (CNN) to segment and detect three types of fluid including sub-retinal fluid (SRF), intra-retinal fluid (IRF) and pigment epithelium detachment (PED) in OCT Bscans of subjects with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and retinal vein occlusion (RVO) or diabetic retinopathy. The proposed method achieves an average dice coefficient of 76.44%, 92.25% and 82.14% in Cirrus, Spectralis and Topcon datasets, respectively. The effectiveness of the proposed methods was also demonstrated in segmenting fluid in OCT images from the 2017 Retouch challenge.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Diabetic Retinopathy
  • Humans
  • Neural Networks, Computer
  • Retina
  • Retinal Vein Occlusion
  • Tomography, Optical Coherence*