June 2015
Volume 56, Issue 7
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ARVO Annual Meeting Abstract  |   June 2015
Validity of an automated algorithm for Choroidal Volume measurement
Author Affiliations & Notes
  • Jay Chhablani
    Vitreo-retina, L V Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, India, Hyderabad, India
  • Ashutosh Richhariya
    Vitreo-retina, L V Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, India, Hyderabad, India
  • Soumya Jana
    Electrical Engg, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India
  • Kiran Kumar
    Electrical Engg, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India
  • Srinath Nizampatnam
    Electrical Engg, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India
  • Footnotes
    Commercial Relationships Jay Chhablani, None; Ashutosh Richhariya, None; Soumya Jana, None; Kiran Kumar, None; Srinath Nizampatnam, None
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Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science June 2015, Vol.56, 5284. doi:
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      Jay Chhablani, Ashutosh Richhariya, Soumya Jana, Kiran Kumar, Srinath Nizampatnam; Validity of an automated algorithm for Choroidal Volume measurement. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2015;56(7 ):5284.

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Abstract
 
Purpose
 

<br /> Manual segmentation of choroidal boundaries is time consuming, tedious and may have inter observer variation. We developed an automated algorithm to segment choroid and provide choroidal volume measurements. Present study aims to validate the automated algorithm in comparison to expert manual segmentation.

 
Methods
 

Three sets of 97 spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) scans, obtained using enhanced depth imaging, were analyzed. Automated segmentation algorithm to detect the upper and lower boundaries of the choroid, was based on structural similarity, adaptive Hessian analysis and tensor voting. Single observer performed manual segmentation twice, in a masked fashion, to obtain intra-observer repeatability. Automated algorithm was validated using 291 SD-OCT scans from three 97-scan datasets as well as individual sets. Cross correlation coefficient and Dice coefficient was used to correlate manual and automated segmentation.

 
Results
 

Overall correlation coefficient and Dice coefficient between manual segmentation was 99.77± 0.19% and 96.73 ± 1.39% respectively. Overall correlation coefficient and Dice coefficient between average manual segmentation was 99.49 ± 0.41% and 93.25 ± 3.07% respectively. Correlation coefficients and absolute differences in choroidal volume between manual and automated segmentation for three sets are shown as Table 1 and 2 respectively.

 
Conclusions
 

Automated algorithm was in close agreement with manual segmentation with average correlation coefficient of about 99% and mean Dice coefficient of about 93%.  

 
Comparison of cross correlation coefficient and Dice coefficient between automated and manual segmentation, considering three individual datasets of 97 scans each and all 291 scans from three datasets
 
Comparison of cross correlation coefficient and Dice coefficient between automated and manual segmentation, considering three individual datasets of 97 scans each and all 291 scans from three datasets
 
 
Comparison of absolute differences in choroidal volume obtained from automated and manual segmentations
 
Comparison of absolute differences in choroidal volume obtained from automated and manual segmentations

 
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