Deep learning for optic disc segmentation and glaucoma diagnosis on retinal images

dc.contributor.authorSreng, Syna
dc.contributor.authorManeerat, Noppadol
dc.contributor.authorHamamoto, Kazuhiko
dc.contributor.authorWin, Khin Yadanar
dc.date.accessioned2026-08-06T10:29:07Z
dc.date.available2026-08-06T10:29:07Z
dc.date.issued2020-07-01
dc.description.abstractGlaucoma is a major global cause of blindness. As the symptoms of glaucoma appear, when the disease reaches an advanced stage, proper screening of glaucoma in the early stages is challenging. Therefore, regular glaucoma screening is essential and recommended. However, eye screening is currently subjective, time-consuming and labor-intensive and there are insufficient eye specialists available. We present an automatic two-stage glaucoma screening system to reduce the workload of ophthalmologists. The system first segmented the optic disc region using a DeepLabv3+ architecture but substituted the encoder module with multiple deep convolutional neural networks. For the classification stage, we used pretrained deep convolutional neural networks for three proposals (1) transfer learning and (2) learning the feature descriptors using support vector machine and (3) building ensemble of methods in (1) and (2). We evaluated our methods on five available datasets containing 2787 retinal images and found that the best option for optic disc segmentation is a combination of DeepLabv3+ and MobileNet. For glaucoma classification, an ensemble of methods performed better than the conventional methods for RIM-ONE, ORIGA, DRISHTI-GS1 and ACRIMA datasets with the accuracy of 97.37%, 90.00%, 86.84% and 99.53% and Area Under Curve (AUC) of 100%, 92.06%, 91.67% and 99.98%, respectively, and performed comparably with CUHKMED, the top team in REFUGE challenge, using REFUGE dataset with an accuracy of 95.59% and AUC of 95.10%.
dc.identifier.citationApplied Sciences Switzerland, 10(14), 2020
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/app10144916
dc.identifier.issn20763417
dc.identifier.other2-s2.0-85088641149
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.kmitl.ac.th/handle/123456789/11098
dc.sourceApplied Sciences Switzerland
dc.subjectDeep activated features
dc.subjectDeep learning
dc.subjectDeeplabv3+
dc.subjectEnsemble classifier
dc.subjectGlaucoma
dc.subjectOptic disc segmentation
dc.subjectRetinal images
dc.subjectSupport vector machine
dc.titleDeep learning for optic disc segmentation and glaucoma diagnosis on retinal images
dc.typeArticle

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