Elevating Fundoscopic Evaluation to Expert Level - Automatic Glaucoma Detection Using Data from the Airogs Challenge

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Contributors

  • Firas Khader - , RWTH Aachen University (Author)
  • Christoph Haarburger - , RWTH Aachen University (Author)
  • Jorg Christian Kirr - , RWTH Aachen University (Author)
  • Marcel Menke - , CheckupPoint Ag, Cantonal Hospital Aarau (Author)
  • Jakob Nikolas Kather - , Else Kröner Fresenius Center for Digital Health, University of Leeds, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg University  (Author)
  • Johannes Stegmaier - , RWTH Aachen University (Author)
  • Christiane Kuhl - , RWTH Aachen University (Author)
  • Sven Nebelung - , RWTH Aachen University (Author)
  • Daniel Truhn - , RWTH Aachen University (Author)

Abstract

Glaucoma is a group of clinically relevant eye diseases that eventually result in damage to the retina and optic nerve, leading to vision loss. While it is the main cause of irreversible blindness worldwide, it typically remains asymptomatic until its late stages. Glaucoma is usually diagnosed during routine eye examination, which includes fundoscopic evaluation. Here, we describe our approach for glaucoma detection in the Artificial Intelligence for Robust Glaucoma Screening challenge based on ocular fundus images. We first use object detection to focus on the most relevant part of the image and then use an ensemble of classification networks. Ungradability is rated by combining the reliability score during object detection with an explicit rating of an ungradability neural network. We achieve a sensitivity of detecting glaucoma of 0.8396 at 95% specificity and an area under the curve of 0.9852 for ungradability detection.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationISBIC 2022 - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging Challenges, Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1-4
ISBN (electronic)9781665451727
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Peer-reviewedYes

Publication series

SeriesISBIC 2022 - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging Challenges, Proceedings

Conference

Title2022 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging Challenges, ISBIC 2022
Duration28 - 31 March 2022
CityKolkata
CountryIndia

Keywords

Keywords

  • airogs challenge, glaucoma detection, ophthalmology