April 2011
Volume 52, Issue 14
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ARVO Annual Meeting Abstract  |   April 2011
Automated Macular Pathology Diagnosis in SD-OCT Scans Based on Multi-Scale Texture and Shape Features within a Pathology-Specific Spatial Mask
Author Affiliations & Notes
  • Yu-Ying Liu
    College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
  • Mei Chen
    Intel Labs Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • Hiroshi Ishikawa
    UPMC Eye Center, Eye and Ear Institute, Ophthalmology and Visual Science Research Center, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
    Department of Bioengineering, Swanson School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • Gadi Wollstein
    UPMC Eye Center, Eye and Ear Institute, Ophthalmology and Visual Science Research Center, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • Joel S. Schuman
    UPMC Eye Center, Eye and Ear Institute, Ophthalmology and Visual Science Research Center, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
    Department of Bioengineering, Swanson School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • James M. Rehg
    College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
  • Footnotes
    Commercial Relationships  Yu-Ying Liu, None; Mei Chen, None; Hiroshi Ishikawa, Bioptigen (P); Gadi Wollstein, Bioptigen (P), Optovue (F); Joel S. Schuman, Bioptigen (P), Carl Zeiss Meditec (P); James M. Rehg, None
  • Footnotes
    Support  NIH R01-EY013178, P30-EY008098; Eye and Ear Foundation (Pittsburgh, PA); Research to Prevent Blindness; Gift Grants from Intel Labs Pittsburgh
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science April 2011, Vol.52, 1306. doi:
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      Yu-Ying Liu, Mei Chen, Hiroshi Ishikawa, Gadi Wollstein, Joel S. Schuman, James M. Rehg; Automated Macular Pathology Diagnosis in SD-OCT Scans Based on Multi-Scale Texture and Shape Features within a Pathology-Specific Spatial Mask. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2011;52(14):1306.

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Abstract

Purpose: : To extend an automated method to identify the presence of healthy macula and three macular pathologies (macular hole (MH), macular edema (ME), and age-related macular degeneration (AMD)) from fovea-centered cross sections in 3D SD-OCT images.

Methods: : SD-OCT scans (Macular Cube 200x200 scan protocol; Cirrus HD-OCT; Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc., Dublin, CA) were obtained on healthy eyes and eyes with MH and/or ME and/or AMD. For each fovea-centered frame, image characteristics within a pathology-specific mask were encoded using multi-scale texture and shape descriptors. This method augments our prior method in the use of shape features and spatial masks to capture the relevant retinal areas only. Three OCT experts labeled each fovea-centered frame independently and the majority opinion for each pathology was used as the ground truth. Machine learning algorithms were used to identify the most discriminative features automatically. Two-class Support Vector Machine classifiers were trained to identify each pathology separately using ten-fold cross validation.

Results: : 326 SD-OCT scans from 136 subjects (193 eyes) were enrolled (65 healthy, 33 MH, 90 ME, and 26 AMD subjects). The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) and best balanced accuracy were 0.980 and 95.7% for healthy macula, 0.935 and 87.9% for MH, 0.948 and 87.8% for ME, and 0.949 and 91.3% for AMD. It is found that the augmented method outperforms the original method in AUC by 0.011 for healthy macula, 0.135 for MH, 0.009 for ME, and 0.024 for AMD.

Conclusions: : The proposed method successfully identified various macular pathologies (all AUC > 0.93). The added shape features and spatial masks enhanced the performance in all categories, particularly for MH.

Keywords: image processing • imaging/image analysis: clinical • imaging methods (CT, FA, ICG, MRI, OCT, RTA, SLO, ultrasound) 
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