July 2019
Volume 60, Issue 9
Open Access
ARVO Annual Meeting Abstract  |   July 2019
Automated Segmentation of Retinal Edema Lesions from OCT Images Using Improved V-Net
Author Affiliations & Notes
  • Xinjian Chen
    Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
  • Shuanglang Feng
    Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
  • Weifang Zhu
    Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
  • Yuhui Ma
    Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
  • Xuena Cheng
    Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
  • Fei Shi
    Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
  • Footnotes
    Commercial Relationships   Xinjian Chen, None; Shuanglang Feng, None; Weifang Zhu, None; Yuhui Ma, None; Xuena Cheng, None; Fei Shi, None
  • Footnotes
    Support  National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) (2014CB748600); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (61622114, 61401294, 81401472, 61401293, 81371629); Natural Science Foundation of the Jiangsu Province (BK20140052).
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science July 2019, Vol.60, 1555. doi:
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      Xinjian Chen, Shuanglang Feng, Weifang Zhu, Yuhui Ma, Xuena Cheng, Fei Shi; Automated Segmentation of Retinal Edema Lesions from OCT Images Using Improved V-Net. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2019;60(9):1555.

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Abstract

Purpose : Detection and tracking of retinal edema by OCT images can play a key role in diagnosis and treatment of the disease. We propose a deep learning based method to automatically segment the retinal edema area (REA), pigment epithelial detachment (PED) and subretinal fluid (SRF) from OCT volumes.

Methods : The AI challenger dataset for segmentation of retinal edema lesions was used[1].The proposed method consists of two steps. (1) Data preprocessing and augmentation. All OCT images are denoised using bilateral filtering. Then a) flipping in the lateral direction of the OCT images was used to simulate the symmetry of right and left eye; b) rotation was used to simulate different inclination of the retina in the OCT images. These processings are applied randomly, and the training data is augmented with a factor of two. (2) Training segmentation model based on improved V-Net. The augmented training data is used to train the V-Net[2] - an improved version of U-Net[3] with residual blocks and dice loss function. In this paper, the pyramid pooling module[4] (PPM) is added into the bottleneck layer of V-Net, which provides additional contextual information for the segmentation task. The “poly” learning rate policy is used where the learning rate is multiplied by (1-iter/max_iter)power with momentum 0.9, power 0.99 and initial learning rate 0.0001.

Results : Fig. 1 shows the results of the original V-Net and the improved V-Net. For the original V-Net, the Dice similarity coefficient for PED, SRF and REA volume segmentation are 59.2%, 66.3% and 69.5%, and the average Dice similarity coefficient is 65.0%. While for the improved V-Net, the Dice similarity coefficient for PED, SRF and REA volume segmentation are 66.3%, 72.8% and 75.4%, respectively, and the average Dice similarity coefficient is 71.5%.

Conclusions : Automated segmentation of retinal edema in patients with co-existence of PED, SRF and REA has been achieved. To improve the segmentation performance, we are working for the further improvement of the convolutional neural network, e.g. adding dilation convolution to the encoder of the network, etc.

This abstract was presented at the 2019 ARVO Annual Meeting, held in Vancouver, Canada, April 28 - May 2, 2019.

 

Fig.1 Experimental results for two examples of retinal edema segmentation. The first column shows the original image; the 2nd column shows the ground truth; the 3rd column shows segmentation results of the improved V-Net; and the 4th column shows segmentation results of the original V-Net.

Fig.1 Experimental results for two examples of retinal edema segmentation. The first column shows the original image; the 2nd column shows the ground truth; the 3rd column shows segmentation results of the improved V-Net; and the 4th column shows segmentation results of the original V-Net.

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