Detection of Disease Features on Retinal OCT Scans Using RETFound

Detection of Disease Features on Retinal OCT Scans Using RETFound

Eye diseases such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD) are major causes of irreversible vision loss. Early and accurate detection of these diseases is essential for effective management. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging provides clinicians with in vivo, cross-sectional views of the re...

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Main Authors: Katherine Du, Atharv Ramesh Nair, Stavan Shah, Adarsh Gadari, Sharat Chandra Vupparaboina, Sandeep Chandra Bollepalli, Shan Sutharahan, José-Alain Sahel, Soumya Jana, Jay Chhablani, Kiran Kumar Vupparaboina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2024-11-01
Series:Bioengineering
Subjects:
retinal imaging
optical coherence tomography
machine learning
age-related macular degeneration
foundational model
automated report generation
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5354/11/12/1186
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Summary:Eye diseases such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD) are major causes of irreversible vision loss. Early and accurate detection of these diseases is essential for effective management. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging provides clinicians with in vivo, cross-sectional views of the retina, enabling the identification of key pathological features. However, manual interpretation of OCT scans is labor-intensive and prone to variability, often leading to diagnostic inconsistencies. To address this, we leveraged the RETFound model, a foundation model pretrained on 1.6 million unlabeled retinal OCT images, to automate the classification of key disease signatures on OCT. We finetuned RETFound and compared its performance with the widely used ResNet-50 model, using single-task and multitask modes. The dataset included 1770 labeled B-scans with various disease features, including subretinal fluid (SRF), intraretinal fluid (IRF), drusen, and pigment epithelial detachment (PED). The performance was evaluated using accuracy and AUC-ROC values, which ranged across models from 0.75 to 0.77 and 0.75 to 0.80, respectively. RETFound models display comparable specificity and sensitivity to ResNet-50 models overall, making it also a promising tool for retinal disease diagnosis. These findings suggest that RETFound may offer improved diagnostic accuracy and interpretability for specific tasks, potentially aiding clinicians in more efficient and reliable OCT image analysis.
ISSN:2306-5354

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