HyCAD-OCT: A Hybrid Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Retinopathy by Optical Coherence Tomography Integrating Machine Learning and Feature Maps Localization
Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) imaging has major advantages in effectively identifying the presence of various ocular pathologies and detecting a wide range of macular diseases. OCT examinations can aid in the detection of many retina disorders in early stages that could not be detected in tradi...
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| author | Mohamed Ramzy Ibrahim Karma M. Fathalla Sherin M. Youssef |
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| description | Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) imaging has major advantages in effectively identifying the presence of various ocular pathologies and detecting a wide range of macular diseases. OCT examinations can aid in the detection of many retina disorders in early stages that could not be detected in traditional retina images. In this paper, a new hybrid computer-aided OCT diagnostic system (HyCAD) is proposed for classification of Diabetic Macular Edema (DME), Choroidal Neovascularization (CNV) and drusen disorders, while separating them from Normal OCT images. The proposed HyCAD hybrid learning system integrates the segmentation of Region of Interest (RoI), based on central serious chorioretinopathy (CSC) in Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography (SD-OCT) images, with deep learning architectures for effective diagnosis of retinal disorders. The proposed system assimilates a range of techniques including RoI localization and feature extraction, followed by classification and diagnosis. An efficient feature fusion phase has been introduced for combining the OCT image features, extracted by Deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), with the features extracted from the RoI segmentation phase. This fused feature set is used to predict multiclass OCT retina disorders. The proposed segmentation phase of retinal RoI regions adds substantial contribution as it draws attention to the most significant areas that are candidate for diagnosis. A new modified deep learning architecture (Norm-VGG16) is introduced integrating a kernel regularizer. Norm-VGG16 is trained from scratch on a large benchmark dataset and used in RoI localization and segmentation. Various experiments have been carried out to illustrate the performance of the proposed system. Large Dataset of Labeled Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) v3 benchmark is used to validate the efficiency of the model compared with others in literature. The experimental results show that the proposed model achieves relatively high-performance in terms of accuracy, sensitivity and specificity. An average accuracy, sensitivity and specificity of 98.8%, 99.4% and 98.2% is achieved, respectively. The remarkable performance achieved reflects that the fusion phase can effectively improve the identification ratio of the urgent patients’ diagnostic images and clinical data. In addition, an outstanding performance is achieved compared to others in literature. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3e1d2b67d981463d8158d6a3fef33b3b2023-11-20T06:13:10ZengMDPI AGApplied Sciences2076-34172020-07-011014471610.3390/app10144716HyCAD-OCT: A Hybrid Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Retinopathy by Optical Coherence Tomography Integrating Machine Learning and Feature Maps LocalizationMohamed Ramzy Ibrahim0Karma M. Fathalla1Sherin M. Youssef2Computer Engineering Department, Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT), Alexandria 1029, EgyptComputer Engineering Department, Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT), Alexandria 1029, EgyptComputer Engineering Department, Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT), Alexandria 1029, EgyptOptical Coherence Tomography (OCT) imaging has major advantages in effectively identifying the presence of various ocular pathologies and detecting a wide range of macular diseases. OCT examinations can aid in the detection of many retina disorders in early stages that could not be detected in traditional retina images. In this paper, a new hybrid computer-aided OCT diagnostic system (HyCAD) is proposed for classification of Diabetic Macular Edema (DME), Choroidal Neovascularization (CNV) and drusen disorders, while separating them from Normal OCT images. The proposed HyCAD hybrid learning system integrates the segmentation of Region of Interest (RoI), based on central serious chorioretinopathy (CSC) in Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography (SD-OCT) images, with deep learning architectures for effective diagnosis of retinal disorders. The proposed system assimilates a range of techniques including RoI localization and feature extraction, followed by classification and diagnosis. An efficient feature fusion phase has been introduced for combining the OCT image features, extracted by Deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), with the features extracted from the RoI segmentation phase. This fused feature set is used to predict multiclass OCT retina disorders. The proposed segmentation phase of retinal RoI regions adds substantial contribution as it draws attention to the most significant areas that are candidate for diagnosis. A new modified deep learning architecture (Norm-VGG16) is introduced integrating a kernel regularizer. Norm-VGG16 is trained from scratch on a large benchmark dataset and used in RoI localization and segmentation. Various experiments have been carried out to illustrate the performance of the proposed system. Large Dataset of Labeled Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) v3 benchmark is used to validate the efficiency of the model compared with others in literature. The experimental results show that the proposed model achieves relatively high-performance in terms of accuracy, sensitivity and specificity. An average accuracy, sensitivity and specificity of 98.8%, 99.4% and 98.2% is achieved, respectively. The remarkable performance achieved reflects that the fusion phase can effectively improve the identification ratio of the urgent patients’ diagnostic images and clinical data. In addition, an outstanding performance is achieved compared to others in literature.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/10/14/4716deep learningCNNfeature generationfeature fusionRoI segmentationOCT |
| spellingShingle | Mohamed Ramzy Ibrahim Karma M. Fathalla Sherin M. Youssef HyCAD-OCT: A Hybrid Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Retinopathy by Optical Coherence Tomography Integrating Machine Learning and Feature Maps Localization Applied Sciences deep learning CNN feature generation feature fusion RoI segmentation OCT |
| title | HyCAD-OCT: A Hybrid Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Retinopathy by Optical Coherence Tomography Integrating Machine Learning and Feature Maps Localization |
| title_full | HyCAD-OCT: A Hybrid Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Retinopathy by Optical Coherence Tomography Integrating Machine Learning and Feature Maps Localization |
| title_fullStr | HyCAD-OCT: A Hybrid Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Retinopathy by Optical Coherence Tomography Integrating Machine Learning and Feature Maps Localization |
| title_full_unstemmed | HyCAD-OCT: A Hybrid Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Retinopathy by Optical Coherence Tomography Integrating Machine Learning and Feature Maps Localization |
| title_short | HyCAD-OCT: A Hybrid Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Retinopathy by Optical Coherence Tomography Integrating Machine Learning and Feature Maps Localization |
| title_sort | hycad oct a hybrid computer aided diagnosis of retinopathy by optical coherence tomography integrating machine learning and feature maps localization |
| topic | deep learning CNN feature generation feature fusion RoI segmentation OCT |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/10/14/4716 |
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