Assessing coarse-to-fine deep learning models for optic disc and cup segmentation in fundus images

Eugenia Moris; Nicolás Dazeo; María Paula Albina de Rueda; Francisco Filizzola; Nicolás Iannuzzo; Danila Nejamkin; Kevin Wignall; Mercedes Leguía; Ignacio Larrabide; José Ignacio Orlando

doi:10.1117/12.2670093

6 March 2023 Assessing coarse-to-fine deep learning models for optic disc and cup segmentation in fundus images

Eugenia Moris, Nicolás Dazeo, María Paula Albina de Rueda, Francisco Filizzola, Nicolás Iannuzzo, Danila Nejamkin, Kevin Wignall, Mercedes Leguía, Ignacio Larrabide, José Ignacio Orlando

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Proceedings Volume 12567, 18th International Symposium on Medical Information Processing and Analysis; 125670R (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2670093
Event: 18th International Symposium on Medical Information Processing and Analysis, 2022, Valparaíso, Chile

Abstract

Automated optic disc (OD) and optic cup (OC) segmentation in fundus images is relevant to efficiently measure the vertical cup-to-disc ratio (vCDR), a biomarker commonly used in ophthalmology to determine the degree of glaucomatous optic neuropathy. In general this is solved using coarse-to-fine deep learning algorithms in which a first stage approximates the OD and a second one uses a crop of this area to predict OD/OC masks. While this approach is widely applied in the literature, there are no studies analyzing its real contribution to the results. In this paper we present a comprehensive analysis of different coarse-to-fine designs for OD/OC segmentation using 5 public databases, both from a standard segmentation perspective and for estimating the vCDR for glaucoma assessment. Our analysis shows that these algorithms not necessarily outperfom standard multi-class single-stage models, especially when these are learned from sufficiently large and diverse training sets. Furthermore, we noticed that the coarse stage achieves better OD segmentation results than the fine one, and that providing OD supervision to the second stage is essential to ensure accurate OC masks. Moreover, both the single-stage and two-stage models trained on a multi-dataset setting showed results close to other state-of-the-art alternatives in REFUGE and DRISHTI. Finally, we evaluated the models for vCDR prediction in comparison with six ophthalmologists on a subset of AIROGS images, to understand them in the context of inter-observer variability. We noticed that vCDR estimates recovered both from single-stage and coarse-to-fine models can obtain good glaucoma detection results even when they are not highly correlated with manual measurements from experts. To ensure the reproducibility of our study, our results, our multi-expert dataset and further implementation details are made publicly available at https://github.com/eugeniaMoris/sipaim-2022-coarse-to-fine.

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Eugenia Moris, Nicolás Dazeo, María Paula Albina de Rueda, Francisco Filizzola, Nicolás Iannuzzo, Danila Nejamkin, Kevin Wignall, Mercedes Leguía, Ignacio Larrabide, and José Ignacio Orlando "Assessing coarse-to-fine deep learning models for optic disc and cup segmentation in fundus images", Proc. SPIE 12567, 18th International Symposium on Medical Information Processing and Analysis, 125670R (6 March 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2670093

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