ORIGA(-light): an online retinal fundus image database for glaucoma analysis and research

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2010:2010:3065-8. doi: 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5626137.

Abstract

Retinal fundus image is an important modality to document the health of the retina and is widely used to diagnose ocular diseases such as glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration. However, the enormous amount of retinal data obtained nowadays mostly stored locally; and the valuable embedded clinical knowledge is not efficiently exploited. In this paper we present an online depository, ORIGA(-light), which aims to share clinical groundtruth retinal images with the public; provide open access for researchers to benchmark their computer-aided segmentation algorithms. An in-house image segmentation and grading tool is developed to facilitate the construction of ORIGA(-light). A quantified objective benchmarking method is proposed, focusing on optic disc and cup segmentation and Cup-to-Disc Ratio (CDR). Currently, ORIGA(-light) contains 650 retinal images annotated by trained professionals from Singapore Eye Research Institute. A wide collection of image signs, critical for glaucoma diagnosis, are annotated. We will update the system continuously with more clinical ground-truth images. ORIGA(-light) is available for online access upon request.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Automation
  • Benchmarking
  • Computer Graphics
  • Databases, Factual*
  • Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted
  • Fundus Oculi*
  • Glaucoma / diagnosis*
  • Glaucoma / physiopathology
  • Humans
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
  • Models, Statistical
  • Software