期刊
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CYBERNETICS
卷 52, 期 11, 页码 11407-11417出版社
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TCYB.2021.3062638
关键词
Lesions; Annotations; Generators; Feature extraction; Image segmentation; Retinopathy; Diabetes; Collaborative learning; convolutional neural networks (CNNs); diabetic retinopathy (DR); fundus image
This article introduces a robust framework for DR severity grading that collaboratively utilizes patch-level and image-level annotations, exchanging grade information bidirectionally to incorporate fine-grained lesion details and image-level grades for improved performance. The algorithm has shown better performance than state-of-the-art algorithms and clinical ophthalmologists, proving its robustness in facing real-world variations. Extensive ablation studies have been conducted to validate the effectiveness and necessity of each motivation in the proposed framework.
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) grading from fundus images has attracted increasing interest in both academic and industrial communities. Most convolutional neural network-based algorithms treat DR grading as a classification task via image-level annotations. However, these algorithms have not fully explored the valuable information in the DR-related lesions. In this article, we present a robust framework, which collaboratively utilizes patch-level and image-level annotations, for DR severity grading. By an end-to-end optimization, this framework can bidirectionally exchange the fine-grained lesion and image-level grade information. As a result, it exploits more discriminative features for DR grading. The proposed framework shows better performance than the recent state-of-the-art algorithms and three clinical ophthalmologists with over nine years of experience. By testing on datasets of different distributions (such as label and camera), we prove that our algorithm is robust when facing image quality and distribution variations that commonly exist in real-world practice. We inspect the proposed framework through extensive ablation studies to indicate the effectiveness and necessity of each motivation. The code and some valuable annotations are now publicly available.
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