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Replication study: Development and validation of deep learning algorithm for detection of diabetic retinopathy in retinal fundus photographs
Replication studies are essential for validation of new methods, and are
crucial to maintain the high standards of scientific publications, and to use
the results in practice. We have attempted to replicate the main method in
'Development and validation of a deep learning algorithm for detection of
diabetic retinopathy in retinal fundus photographs' published in JAMA 2016;
316(22). We re-implemented the method since the source code is not available,
and we used publicly available data sets. The original study used non-public
fundus images from EyePACS and three hospitals in India for training. We used a
different EyePACS data set from Kaggle. The original study used the benchmark
data set Messidor-2 to evaluate the algorithm's performance. We used the same
data set. In the original study, ophthalmologists re-graded all images for
diabetic retinopathy, macular edema, and image gradability. There was one
diabetic retinopathy grade per image for our data sets, and we assessed image
gradability ourselves. Hyper-parameter settings were not described in the
original study. But some of these were later published. We were not able to
replicate the original study. Our algorithm's area under the receiver operating
curve (AUC) of 0.94 on the Kaggle EyePACS test set and 0.80 on Messidor-2 did
not come close to the reported AUC of 0.99 in the original study. This may be
caused by the use of a single grade per image, different data, or different not
described hyper-parameter settings. This study shows the challenges of
replicating deep learning, and the need for more replication studies to
validate deep learning methods, especially for medical image analysis.
Our source code and instructions are available at:
https://github.com/mikevoets/jama16-retina-replicationComment: The third version of this paper includes results from replication
after certain hyper-parameters were published in later article. 16 pages, 6
figures, 1 table, presented at NOBIM 201
Detection of Hard Exudates in Retinal Fundus Images using Deep Learning
Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is a retinal disorder that affects the people
having diabetes mellitus for a long time (20 years). DR is one of the main
reasons for the preventable blindness all over the world. If not detected early
the patient may progress to severe stages of irreversible blindness. Lack of
Ophthalmologists poses a serious problem for the growing diabetes patients. It
is advised to develop an automated DR screening system to assist the
Ophthalmologist in decision making. Hard exudates develop when DR is present.
It is important to detect hard exudates in order to detect DR in an early
stage. Research has been done to detect hard exudates using regular image
processing techniques and Machine Learning techniques. Here, a deep learning
algorithm has been presented in this paper that detects hard exudates in fundus
images of the retina.Comment: 5 Pages, 3 figures, 2 tables, International Conference on Systems,
Computation, Automation and Networking http://icscan.in
Lesion detection and Grading of Diabetic Retinopathy via Two-stages Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
We propose an automatic diabetic retinopathy (DR) analysis algorithm based on
two-stages deep convolutional neural networks (DCNN). Compared to existing
DCNN-based DR detection methods, the proposed algorithm have the following
advantages: (1) Our method can point out the location and type of lesions in
the fundus images, as well as giving the severity grades of DR. Moreover, since
retina lesions and DR severity appear with different scales in fundus images,
the integration of both local and global networks learn more complete and
specific features for DR analysis. (2) By introducing imbalanced weighting map,
more attentions will be given to lesion patches for DR grading, which
significantly improve the performance of the proposed algorithm. In this study,
we label 12,206 lesion patches and re-annotate the DR grades of 23,595 fundus
images from Kaggle competition dataset. Under the guidance of clinical
ophthalmologists, the experimental results show that our local lesion detection
net achieve comparable performance with trained human observers, and the
proposed imbalanced weighted scheme also be proved to significantly improve the
capability of our DCNN-based DR grading algorithm
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