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A deep learning model for segmentation of geographic atrophy to study its long-term natural history

Bart Liefers·Johanna M. Colijn·Cristina González-Gonzalo·Timo Verzijden·Paul Mitchell·Carel B. Hoyng·Bram van Ginneken·Caroline C. W. Klaver·Clara I. Sánchez
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Purpose: To develop and validate a deep learning model for automatic segmentation of geographic atrophy (GA) in color fundus images (CFIs) and its application to study growth rate of GA. Participants: 409 CFIs of 238 eyes with GA from the Rotterdam Study (RS) and the Blue Mountain Eye Study (BMES) for model development, and 5,379 CFIs of 625 eyes from the Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS) for analysis of GA growth rate. Methods: A deep learning model based on an ensemble of encoder-decoder architectures was implemented and optimized for the segmentation of GA in CFIs. Four experienced graders delineated GA in CFIs from RS and BMES. These manual delineations were used to evaluate the segmentation model using 5-fold cross-validation. The model was further applied to CFIs from the AREDS to study the growth rate of GA. Linear regression analysis was used to study associations between structural biomarkers at baseline and GA growth rate. A general estimate of the progression of GA area over time was made by combining growth rates of all eyes with GA from the AREDS set. Results: The model obtained an average Dice coefficient of 0.72 $\pm$ 0.26 on the BMES and RS. An intraclass correlation coefficient of 0.83 was reached between the automatically estimated GA area and the graders' consensus measures. Eight automatically calculated structural biomarkers (area, filled area, convex area, convex solidity, eccentricity, roundness, foveal involvement and perimeter) were significantly associated with growth rate. Combining all growth rates indicated that GA area grows quadratically up to an area of around 12 mm$^{2}$, after which growth rate stabilizes or decreases. Conclusion: The presented deep learning model allowed for fully automatic and robust segmentation of GA in CFIs. These segmentations can be used to extract structural characteristics of GA that predict its growth rate.

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Bart Liefers, Johanna M. Colijn, Cristina González-Gonzalo, Timo Verzijden, Paul Mitchell, Carel B. Hoyng, Bram van Ginneken, Caroline C. W. Klaver, Clara I. Sánchez. 2019-08-15. A deep learning model for segmentation of geographic atrophy to study its long-term natural history. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ophtha.2020.02.009

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