[HTML][HTML] Fully automated, deep learning segmentation of oxygen-induced retinopathy images

S Xiao, F Bucher, Y Wu, A Rokem, CS Lee, KV Marra… - JCI insight, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
S Xiao, F Bucher, Y Wu, A Rokem, CS Lee, KV Marra, R Fallon, S Diaz-Aguilar, E Aguilar…
JCI insight, 2017ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Oxygen-induced retinopathy (OIR) is a widely used model to study ischemia-driven
neovascularization (NV) in the retina and to serve in proof-of-concept studies in evaluating
antiangiogenic drugs for ocular, as well as nonocular, diseases. The primary parameters
that are analyzed in this mouse model include the percentage of retina with vaso-obliteration
(VO) and NV areas. However, quantification of these two key variables comes with a great
challenge due to the requirement of human experts to read the images. Human readers are …
Abstract
Oxygen-induced retinopathy (OIR) is a widely used model to study ischemia-driven neovascularization (NV) in the retina and to serve in proof-of-concept studies in evaluating antiangiogenic drugs for ocular, as well as nonocular, diseases. The primary parameters that are analyzed in this mouse model include the percentage of retina with vaso-obliteration (VO) and NV areas. However, quantification of these two key variables comes with a great challenge due to the requirement of human experts to read the images. Human readers are costly, time-consuming, and subject to bias. Using recent advances in machine learning and computer vision, we trained deep learning neural networks using over a thousand segmentations to fully automate segmentation in OIR images. While determining the percentage area of VO, our algorithm achieved a similar range of correlation coefficients to that of expert inter-human correlation coefficients. In addition, our algorithm achieved a higher range of correlation coefficients compared with inter-expert correlation coefficients for quantification of the percentage area of neovascular tufts. In summary, we have created an open-source, fully automated pipeline for the quantification of key values of OIR images using deep learning neural networks.
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