September 2016
Volume 57, Issue 12
Open Access
ARVO Annual Meeting Abstract  |   September 2016
Automated classification of age-related macular degeneration using choroidal optical coherence tomography imaging – a pilot study
Author Affiliations & Notes
  • Louise Terry
    School of Optometry and Vision Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
  • Jingjing Deng
    Department of Computer Science, Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom
  • Xianghua Xie
    Department of Computer Science, Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom
  • Tom Margrain
    School of Optometry and Vision Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
  • Rachel V North
    School of Optometry and Vision Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
  • James Fergusson
    School of Optometry and Vision Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
  • Nick White
    School of Optometry and Vision Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
  • Ashley Wood
    School of Optometry and Vision Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
  • Footnotes
    Commercial Relationships   Louise Terry, None; Jingjing Deng, None; Xianghua Xie, None; Tom Margrain, None; Rachel North, None; James Fergusson, None; Nick White, None; Ashley Wood, None
  • Footnotes
    Support  Cardiff University
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science September 2016, Vol.57, 45. doi:
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      Louise Terry, Jingjing Deng, Xianghua Xie, Tom Margrain, Rachel V North, James Fergusson, Nick White, Ashley Wood; Automated classification of age-related macular degeneration using choroidal optical coherence tomography imaging – a pilot study. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2016;57(12):45.

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Abstract

Purpose : Choroidal vascular changes are evident in age-related macular degeneration (AMD) using histology. However, current disease classification using in vivo imaging techniques is based predominantly on retinal features. We performed a retrospective analysis to test the viability of using choroidal optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging for classifying AMD disease stage.

Methods : Three-dimensional (3-D) long-wavelength (1040nm) OCT images were obtained from eyes with neovascular AMD (n=7), early AMD (n=7), and healthy age-similar controls (n=7). These 20° x 20° (512 x 512 x 1024 pixel) macular scans were classified based on retinal appearance into the disease groups by three masked observers. This was taken as ground truth for the classification algorithm. The choroid was then manually labelled as a closed contour on 20 randomly selected scans per 3-D image (a total of 140 B-scans per group). Texture features were extracted from this region using a Gabor filter bank and non-linear energy transformation. Feature descriptors were used to train three different learning models; random decision forests, support vector machines (SVM) and deep neural networks, for each known disease stage. Confusion matrices were constructed for 10-fold, 2-fold, and leave-one-out cross-validation, to assess classification accuracy under each condition.

Results : A 10-fold cross validation achieved a mean classification accuracy of 94.7%, 97.1% and 84.7% for random forests, SVM and neural networks respectively. A 2-fold cross validation achieved classification accuracy of 88.7%, 94.4% and 78.1% respectively. Leave-one-out cross-validation (representing a clinical diagnosis scenario) achieved 53.2%, 53.4% and 50.5% accuracy respectively. These values are considerably higher than chance (33.3%). In all cases, the classification accuracy was lowest for the early AMD group.

Conclusions : This machine learning approach to automated AMD classification is feasible, and may be a promising method of making clinical diagnoses and determining intervention strategies. Due to the retrospective nature of this pilot study, the techniques described will be applied to a larger dataset of disease and control images, optimized for choroidal visualization.

This is an abstract that was submitted for the 2016 ARVO Annual Meeting, held in Seattle, Wash., May 1-5, 2016.

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