MEMO: Dataset and Methods for Robust Multimodal Retinal Image Registration with Large or Small Vessel Density Differences

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Main Authors: Wang, Chiao-Yi, Sadrieh, Faranguisse Kakhi, Shen, Yi-Ting, Chen, Shih-En, Kim, Sarah, Chen, Victoria, Raghavendra, Achyut, Wang, Dongyi, Saeedi, Osamah, Tao, Yang
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author Wang, Chiao-Yi
Sadrieh, Faranguisse Kakhi
Shen, Yi-Ting
Chen, Shih-En
Kim, Sarah
Chen, Victoria
Raghavendra, Achyut
Wang, Dongyi
Saeedi, Osamah
Tao, Yang
author_facet Wang, Chiao-Yi
Sadrieh, Faranguisse Kakhi
Shen, Yi-Ting
Chen, Shih-En
Kim, Sarah
Chen, Victoria
Raghavendra, Achyut
Wang, Dongyi
Saeedi, Osamah
Tao, Yang
contents The measurement of retinal blood flow (RBF) in capillaries can provide a powerful biomarker for the early diagnosis and treatment of ocular diseases. However, no single modality can determine capillary flowrates with high precision. Combining erythrocyte-mediated angiography (EMA) with optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) has the potential to achieve this goal, as EMA can measure the absolute 2D RBF of retinal microvasculature and OCTA can provide the 3D structural images of capillaries. However, multimodal retinal image registration between these two modalities remains largely unexplored. To fill this gap, we establish MEMO, the first public multimodal EMA and OCTA retinal image dataset. A unique challenge in multimodal retinal image registration between these modalities is the relatively large difference in vessel density (VD). To address this challenge, we propose a segmentation-based deep-learning framework (VDD-Reg) and a new evaluation metric (MSD), which provide robust results despite differences in vessel density. VDD-Reg consists of a vessel segmentation module and a registration module. To train the vessel segmentation module, we further designed a two-stage semi-supervised learning framework (LVD-Seg) combining supervised and unsupervised losses. We demonstrate that VDD-Reg outperforms baseline methods quantitatively and qualitatively for cases of both small VD differences (using the CF-FA dataset) and large VD differences (using our MEMO dataset). Moreover, VDD-Reg requires as few as three annotated vessel segmentation masks to maintain its accuracy, demonstrating its feasibility.
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spellingShingle MEMO: Dataset and Methods for Robust Multimodal Retinal Image Registration with Large or Small Vessel Density Differences
Wang, Chiao-Yi
Sadrieh, Faranguisse Kakhi
Shen, Yi-Ting
Chen, Shih-En
Kim, Sarah
Chen, Victoria
Raghavendra, Achyut
Wang, Dongyi
Saeedi, Osamah
Tao, Yang
Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
The measurement of retinal blood flow (RBF) in capillaries can provide a powerful biomarker for the early diagnosis and treatment of ocular diseases. However, no single modality can determine capillary flowrates with high precision. Combining erythrocyte-mediated angiography (EMA) with optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) has the potential to achieve this goal, as EMA can measure the absolute 2D RBF of retinal microvasculature and OCTA can provide the 3D structural images of capillaries. However, multimodal retinal image registration between these two modalities remains largely unexplored. To fill this gap, we establish MEMO, the first public multimodal EMA and OCTA retinal image dataset. A unique challenge in multimodal retinal image registration between these modalities is the relatively large difference in vessel density (VD). To address this challenge, we propose a segmentation-based deep-learning framework (VDD-Reg) and a new evaluation metric (MSD), which provide robust results despite differences in vessel density. VDD-Reg consists of a vessel segmentation module and a registration module. To train the vessel segmentation module, we further designed a two-stage semi-supervised learning framework (LVD-Seg) combining supervised and unsupervised losses. We demonstrate that VDD-Reg outperforms baseline methods quantitatively and qualitatively for cases of both small VD differences (using the CF-FA dataset) and large VD differences (using our MEMO dataset). Moreover, VDD-Reg requires as few as three annotated vessel segmentation masks to maintain its accuracy, demonstrating its feasibility.
title MEMO: Dataset and Methods for Robust Multimodal Retinal Image Registration with Large or Small Vessel Density Differences
topic Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.14550