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Comparative Study
. 2015 Jan 8;56(1):633-9.
doi: 10.1167/iovs.14-15019.

Automatic identification of reticular pseudodrusen using multimodal retinal image analysis

Mark J J P van Grinsven  1 , Gabriëlle H S Buitendijk  2 , Corina Brussee  2 , Bram van Ginneken  1 , Carel B Hoyng  3 , Thomas Theelen  3 , Caroline C W Klaver  2 , Clara I Sánchez  1
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Comparative Study

Automatic identification of reticular pseudodrusen using multimodal retinal image analysis

Mark J J P van Grinsven et al. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. .
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Abstract

Purpose: To examine human performance and agreement on reticular pseudodrusen (RPD) detection and quantification by using single- and multimodality grading protocols and to describe and evaluate a machine learning system for the automatic detection and quantification of reticular pseudodrusen by using single- and multimodality information.

Methods: Color fundus, fundus autofluoresence, and near-infrared images of 278 eyes from 230 patients with or without presence of RPD were used in this study. All eyes were scored for presence of RPD during single- and multimodality setups by two experienced observers and a developed machine learning system. Furthermore, automatic quantification of RPD area was performed by the proposed system and compared with human delineations.

Results: Observers obtained a higher performance and better interobserver agreement for RPD detection with multimodality grading, achieving areas under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve of 0.940 and 0.958, and a κ agreement of 0.911. The proposed automatic system achieved an area under the ROC of 0.941 with a multimodality setup. Automatic RPD quantification resulted in an intraclass correlation (ICC) value of 0.704, which was comparable with ICC values obtained between single-modality manual delineations.

Conclusions: Observer performance and agreement for RPD identification improved significantly by using a multimodality grading approach. The developed automatic system showed similar performance as observers, and automatic RPD area quantification was in concordance with manual delineations. The proposed automatic system allows for a fast and accurate identification and quantification of RPD, opening the way for efficient quantitative imaging biomarkers in large data set analysis.

Keywords: age-related macular degeneration; automatic detection; reticular pseudodrusen.

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