Intra- and Inter-expert Validation of an Automatic Segmentation Method for Fluid Regions Associated with Central Serous Chorioretinopathy in OCT Images.

Central Serous Chorioretinopathy (CSC) is a retinal disorder caused by the accumulation of fluid, resulting in vision distortion. The diagnosis of this disease is typically performed through Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) imaging, which displays any fluid buildup between the retinal layers. Curr...

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Published in:Journal of Digital Imaging Vol. 37; no. 1; pp. 107 - 123
Main Authors: Gende, Mateo, Castelo, Lúa, de Moura, Joaquim, Novo, Jorge, Ortega, Marcos
Format: diagnostic images pictorial tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Springer Nature Feb2024
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          Gende, Mateo
          Castelo, Lúa
          de Moura, Joaquim
          Novo, Jorge
          Ortega, Marcos
        affil: Grupo, VARPA, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña (INIBIC), Universidade da Coruña, Xubias de Arriba, 84, 15006, A Coruña, Spain
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          Deep Learning
          Automation
          Retinal Diseases Diagnosis
          Intrarater Reliability
          Interrater Reliability
          Tomography, Optical Coherence
          Image Processing, Computer Assisted
          Diagnosis, Computer Assisted
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          External Validity
          kappa Statistic
          Correlation Coefficient
      ab: Central Serous Chorioretinopathy (CSC) is a retinal disorder caused by the accumulation of fluid, resulting in vision distortion. The diagnosis of this disease is typically performed through Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) imaging, which displays any fluid buildup between the retinal layers. Currently, these fluid regions are manually detected by visual inspection a time-consuming and subjective process that can be prone to errors. A series of six deep learning-based automatic segmentation architectural configurations of different levels of complexity were trained and compared in order to determine the best model intended for the automatic segmentation of CSC-related lesions in OCT images. The best performing models were then evaluated in an external validation study. Furthermore, an intra- and inter-expert analysis was conducted in order to compare the manual segmentation performed by expert ophthalmologists with the automatic segmentation provided by the models. Test results of the best performing configuration achieved a mean Dice of 0.868 ± 0.056 in the internal dataset. In the external validation set, these models achieved a level of agreement with human experts of up to 0.960 in terms of Kappa coefficient, contrasting with a value of 0.951 for agreement between human experts. Overall, the models reached a better agreement with either of the human experts than these experts with each other, suggesting that automatic segmentation models for the detection of CSC-related lesions in OCT imaging can be useful tools for assessing this disease, reducing the workload of manual inspection and leading to a more robust and objective diagnosis method.
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