Classification of Keratitis from Eye Corneal Photographs using Deep Learning

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Hauptverfasser: Beirão, Maria Miguel, Matos, João, Gonçalves, Tiago, Kase, Camila, Nakayama, Luis Filipe, de Freitas, Denise, Cardoso, Jaime S.
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author Beirão, Maria Miguel
Matos, João
Gonçalves, Tiago
Kase, Camila
Nakayama, Luis Filipe
de Freitas, Denise
Cardoso, Jaime S.
author_facet Beirão, Maria Miguel
Matos, João
Gonçalves, Tiago
Kase, Camila
Nakayama, Luis Filipe
de Freitas, Denise
Cardoso, Jaime S.
contents Keratitis is an inflammatory corneal condition responsible for 10% of visual impairment in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), with bacteria, fungi, or amoeba as the most common infection etiologies. While an accurate and timely diagnosis is crucial for the selected treatment and the patients' sight outcomes, due to the high cost and limited availability of laboratory diagnostics in LMICs, diagnosis is often made by clinical observation alone, despite its lower accuracy. In this study, we investigate and compare different deep learning approaches to diagnose the source of infection: 1) three separate binary models for infection type predictions; 2) a multitask model with a shared backbone and three parallel classification layers (Multitask V1); and, 3) a multitask model with a shared backbone and a multi-head classification layer (Multitask V2). We used a private Brazilian cornea dataset to conduct the empirical evaluation. We achieved the best results with Multitask V2, with an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC) confidence intervals of 0.7413-0.7740 (bacteria), 0.8395-0.8725 (fungi), and 0.9448-0.9616 (amoeba). A statistical analysis of the impact of patient features on models' performance revealed that sex significantly affects amoeba infection prediction, and age seems to affect fungi and bacteria predictions.
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spellingShingle Classification of Keratitis from Eye Corneal Photographs using Deep Learning
Beirão, Maria Miguel
Matos, João
Gonçalves, Tiago
Kase, Camila
Nakayama, Luis Filipe
de Freitas, Denise
Cardoso, Jaime S.
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Keratitis is an inflammatory corneal condition responsible for 10% of visual impairment in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), with bacteria, fungi, or amoeba as the most common infection etiologies. While an accurate and timely diagnosis is crucial for the selected treatment and the patients' sight outcomes, due to the high cost and limited availability of laboratory diagnostics in LMICs, diagnosis is often made by clinical observation alone, despite its lower accuracy. In this study, we investigate and compare different deep learning approaches to diagnose the source of infection: 1) three separate binary models for infection type predictions; 2) a multitask model with a shared backbone and three parallel classification layers (Multitask V1); and, 3) a multitask model with a shared backbone and a multi-head classification layer (Multitask V2). We used a private Brazilian cornea dataset to conduct the empirical evaluation. We achieved the best results with Multitask V2, with an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC) confidence intervals of 0.7413-0.7740 (bacteria), 0.8395-0.8725 (fungi), and 0.9448-0.9616 (amoeba). A statistical analysis of the impact of patient features on models' performance revealed that sex significantly affects amoeba infection prediction, and age seems to affect fungi and bacteria predictions.
title Classification of Keratitis from Eye Corneal Photographs using Deep Learning
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.08935