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Bio-inspired Attentive Segmentation of Retinal OCT Imaging

Lazaridis, G; Xu, M; Afgeh, SS; Montesano, G; Garway-Heath, D; (2020) Bio-inspired Attentive Segmentation of Retinal OCT Imaging. In: Fu, H and Garvin, MK and MacGillivray, T and Xu, Y and Zheng, Y, (eds.) Ophthalmic Medical Image Analysis: 7th International Workshop, OMIA 2020, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2020, Lima, Peru, October 8, 2020, Proceedings. (pp. pp. 1-10). Springer: Cham, Switzerland. Green open access

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Abstract

Albeit optical coherence imaging (OCT) is widely used to assess ophthalmic pathologies, localization of intra-retinal boundaries suffers from erroneous segmentations due to image artifacts or topological abnormalities. Although deep learning-based methods have been effectively applied in OCT imaging, accurate automated layer segmentation remains a challenging task, with the flexibility and precision of most methods being highly constrained. In this paper, we propose a novel method to segment all retinal layers, tailored to the bio-topological OCT geometry. In addition to traditional learning of shift-invariant features, our method learns in selected pixels horizontally and vertically, exploiting the orientation of the extracted features. In this way, the most discriminative retinal features are generated in a robust manner, while long-range pixel dependencies across spatial locations are efficiently captured. To validate the effectiveness and generalisation of our method, we implement three sets of networks based on different backbone models. Results on three independent studies show that our methodology consistently produces more accurate segmentations than state-of-the-art networks, and shows better precision and agreement with ground truth. Thus, our method not only improves segmentation, but also enhances the statistical power of clinical trials with layer thickness change outcomes.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: Bio-inspired Attentive Segmentation of Retinal OCT Imaging
Event: 7th International Workshop on Ophthalmic Medical Image Analysis, OMIA 2020
ISBN-13: 978-3-030-63418-6
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-63419-3_1
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63419-3_1
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Institute of Ophthalmology
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Electronic and Electrical Eng
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Med Phys and Biomedical Eng
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10120437
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