A Computer Assisted Method for Nuclear Cataract Grading From Slit-Lamp Images Using Ranking

作者:Huang Wei*; Chan Kap Luk; Li Huiqi; Lim Joo Hwee; Liu Jiang; Wong Tien Yin
来源:IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2011, 30(1): 94-107.
DOI:10.1109/TMI.2010.2062197

摘要

In clinical diagnosis, a grade indicating the severity of nuclear cataract is often manually assigned by a trained ophthalmologist to a patient after comparing the lens' opacity severity in his/her slit-lamp images with a set of standard photos. This grading scheme is often subjective and time-consuming. In this paper, a novel computer-aided diagnosis method via ranking is proposed to facilitate nuclear cataract grading following conventional clinical decision-making process. The grade of nuclear cataract in a slit-lamp image is predicted using its neighboring labeled images in a ranked image list, which is achieved using a learned ranking function. This ranking function is learned via direct optimization on a newly proposed approximation to a ranking evaluation measure. Our proposed method has been evaluated by a large dataset composed of 1000 different cases, which are collected from an ongoing clinical population-based study. Both experimental results and comparison with several existing methods demonstrate the benefit of grading via ranking by our proposed method.

  • 出版日期2011-1
  • 单位南阳理工学院