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Automatic detection of the foveal center in optical coherence tomography #MMPMID29188111
Liefers B; Venhuizen FG; Schreur V; van Ginneken B; Hoyng C; Fauser S; Theelen T; Sánchez CI
Biomed Opt Express 2017[Nov]; 8 (11): 5160-78 PMID29188111show ga
We propose a method for automatic detection of the foveal center in optical coherence tomography (OCT). The method is based on a pixel-wise classification of all pixels in an OCT volume using a fully convolutional neural network (CNN) with dilated convolution filters. The CNN-architecture contains anisotropic dilated filters and a shortcut connection and has been trained using a dynamic training procedure where the network identifies its own relevant training samples. The performance of the proposed method is evaluated on a data set of 400 OCT scans of patients affected by age-related macular degeneration (AMD) at different severity levels. For 391 scans (97.75%) the method identified the foveal center with a distance to a human reference less than 750 ?m, with a mean (± SD) distance of 71 ?m ± 107 ?m. Two independent observers also annotated the foveal center, with a mean distance to the reference of 57 ?m ± 84 ?m and 56 ?m ± 80 ?m, respectively. Furthermore, we evaluate variations to the proposed network architecture and training procedure, providing insight in the characteristics that led to the demonstrated performance of the proposed method.