Corneal endothelium assessment in specular microscopy images with Fuchs’ dystrophy via deep regression of signed distance maps
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Data publicació2023-01-01
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Abstract
Specular microscopy assessment of the human corneal endothelium (CE) in Fuchs’ dystrophy is challenging due to the presence of dark image regions called guttae. This paper proposes a UNet-based segmentation approach that requires minimal post-processing and achieves reliable CE morphometric assessment and guttae identification across all degrees of Fuchs’ dystrophy. We cast the segmentation problem as a regression task of the cell and gutta signed distance maps instead of a pixel-level classification task as typically done with UNets. Compared to the conventional UNet classification approach, the distance-map regression approach converges faster in clinically relevant parameters. It also produces morphometric parameters that agree with the manually-segmented ground-truth data, namely the average cell density difference of -41.9 cells/mm2 (95% confidence interval (CI) [-306.2, 222.5]) and the average difference of mean cell area of 14.8 µm 2 (95% CI [-41.9, 71.5]). These results suggest a promising alternative for CE assessment.
CitacióSierra, J. [et al.]. Corneal endothelium assessment in specular microscopy images with Fuchs' dystrophy via deep regression of signed distance maps. "Biomedical optics express", 1 Gener 2023, vol. 14, núm. 1, p. 335-351.
ISSN2156-7085
Versió de l'editorhttps://opg.optica.org/boe/fulltext.cfm?uri=boe-14-1-335&id=524404
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