Automatic localization of retinal landmarks.
Retinal landmark detection is a key step in retinal screening and computer-aided diagnosis for different types of eye diseases, such as glaucomma, age-related macular degeneration(AMD) and diabetic retinopathy. In this paper, we propose a semantic image transformation(SIT) approach for retinal representation and automatic landmark detection. The proposed SIT characterizes the local statistics of a fundus image and boosts the intrinsic retinal structures, such as optic disc(OD), macula. We propose our salient OD and macular models based on SIT for retinal landmark detection. Experiments on 5928 images show that our method achieves an accuracy of 99.44% in the detection of OD and an accuracy of 93.49% in the detection of macula, while having an accuracy of 97.33% for left and right eye classification. The proposed SIT can automatically detect the retinal landmarks and be useful for further eye-disease screening and diagnosis.
Institute for Infocomm Research, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, 138632, Singapore. xcheng@i2r.a-star.edu.sg
Xiangang
X
Cheng
Damon Wing Kee
DW
Wong
Jiang
J
Liu
Beng-Hai
BH
Lee
Ngan Meng
NM
Tan
Jielin
J
Zhang
Ching Yu
CY
Cheng
Gemmy
G
Cheung
Tien Yin
TY
Wong
D000465:Algorithms; D059925:Anatomic Landmarks / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D006801:Humans; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated / Q000379:methods*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012160:Retina / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D042262:Retinoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity