Benchmarking Retinal Blood Vessel Segmentation Models for Cross-Dataset and Cross-Disease Generalization

Fuente: arXiv
Salvato in:
Dettagli Bibliografici
Autori principali: Fadugba, Jeremiah, Köhler, Patrick, Koch, Lisa, Manescu, Petru, Berens, Philipp
Natura: Preprint
Pubblicazione: 2024
Soggetti:
Accesso online:
Tags: Aggiungi Tag
Nessun Tag, puoi essere il primo ad aggiungerne!!
_version_ 1866909228853100544
author Fadugba, Jeremiah
Köhler, Patrick
Koch, Lisa
Manescu, Petru
Berens, Philipp
author_facet Fadugba, Jeremiah
Köhler, Patrick
Koch, Lisa
Manescu, Petru
Berens, Philipp
contents Retinal blood vessel segmentation can extract clinically relevant information from fundus images. As manual tracing is cumbersome, algorithms based on Convolution Neural Networks have been developed. Such studies have used small publicly available datasets for training and measuring performance, running the risk of overfitting. Here, we provide a rigorous benchmark for various architectural and training choices commonly used in the literature on the largest dataset published to date. We train and evaluate five published models on the publicly available FIVES fundus image dataset, which exceeds previous ones in size and quality and which contains also images from common ophthalmological conditions (diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma). We compare the performance of different model architectures across different loss functions, levels of image qualitiy and ophthalmological conditions and assess their ability to perform well in the face of disease-induced domain shifts. Given sufficient training data, basic architectures such as U-Net perform just as well as more advanced ones, and transfer across disease-induced domain shifts typically works well for most architectures. However, we find that image quality is a key factor determining segmentation outcomes. When optimizing for segmentation performance, investing into a well curated dataset to train a standard architecture yields better results than tuning a sophisticated architecture on a smaller dataset or one with lower image quality. We distilled the utility of architectural advances in terms of their clinical relevance therefore providing practical guidance for model choices depending on the circumstances of the clinical setting
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2406_14994
institution arXiv
publishDate 2024
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Benchmarking Retinal Blood Vessel Segmentation Models for Cross-Dataset and Cross-Disease Generalization
Fadugba, Jeremiah
Köhler, Patrick
Koch, Lisa
Manescu, Petru
Berens, Philipp
Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Retinal blood vessel segmentation can extract clinically relevant information from fundus images. As manual tracing is cumbersome, algorithms based on Convolution Neural Networks have been developed. Such studies have used small publicly available datasets for training and measuring performance, running the risk of overfitting. Here, we provide a rigorous benchmark for various architectural and training choices commonly used in the literature on the largest dataset published to date. We train and evaluate five published models on the publicly available FIVES fundus image dataset, which exceeds previous ones in size and quality and which contains also images from common ophthalmological conditions (diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma). We compare the performance of different model architectures across different loss functions, levels of image qualitiy and ophthalmological conditions and assess their ability to perform well in the face of disease-induced domain shifts. Given sufficient training data, basic architectures such as U-Net perform just as well as more advanced ones, and transfer across disease-induced domain shifts typically works well for most architectures. However, we find that image quality is a key factor determining segmentation outcomes. When optimizing for segmentation performance, investing into a well curated dataset to train a standard architecture yields better results than tuning a sophisticated architecture on a smaller dataset or one with lower image quality. We distilled the utility of architectural advances in terms of their clinical relevance therefore providing practical guidance for model choices depending on the circumstances of the clinical setting
title Benchmarking Retinal Blood Vessel Segmentation Models for Cross-Dataset and Cross-Disease Generalization
topic Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.14994