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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Chris Willcocks, Maged Habib, Professor David SteelORCiD, Professor Boguslaw ObaraORCiD
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© 2021 CEUR-WS. All rights reserved.Macular holes are a common eye condition which result in visual impairment. We look at the application of deep convolutional neural networks to the problem of macular hole segmentation. We use the 3D U-Net architecture as a basis and experiment with a number of design variants. Manually annotating and measuring macular holes is time consuming and error prone, taking dozens of minutes to annotate a single 3D scan. Previous automated approaches to macular hole segmentation take minutes to segment a single 3D scan. We found that, in less than one second, deep learning models generate significantly more accurate segmentations than previous automated approaches (Jaccard index boost of 0.08 - 0.09) and expert agreement (Jaccard index boost of 0.13 - 0.20). We also demonstrate that an approach of architectural simplification, by greatly simplifying the network capacity and depth, results in a model which is competitive with state-of-the-art models such as residual 3D U-Nets.
Author(s): Frawley J, Willcocks CG, Habib M, Geenen C, Steel DH, Obara B
Editor(s): Arjun Pakrashi, Ellen Rushe, Mehran Hossein Zadeh Bazargani, Brian Mac Namee
Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)
Publication status: Published
Conference Name: The 29th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS 2021)
Year of Conference: 2021
Pages: 36-47
Online publication date: 09/12/2021
Acceptance date: 02/04/2018
Date deposited: 29/03/2022
ISSN: 1613-0073
Publisher: CEUR-WS
URL: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3105/paper6.pdf
Series Title: CEUR Workshop Proceedings
