Yukang Jiang, Jianying Pan, Ming Yuan, Yanhe Shen, Jin Zhu, Yishen Wang, Yewei Li, Ke Zhang, Qingyun Yu, Huirui Xie, Huiting Li, Xueqin Wang, Yan Luo
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a prevalent vision-threatening disease worldwide. Laser marks are the scars left after panretinal photocoagulation, a treatment to prevent patients with severe DR from losing vision. In this study, we develop a deep learning algorithm based on the lightweight U-Net to segment laser marks from the color fundus photos, which could help indicate a stage or providing valuable auxiliary information for the care of DR patients. We prepared our training and testing data, manually annotated by trained and experienced graders from Image Reading Center, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, publicly available to fill the vacancy of public image datasets dedicated to the segmentation of laser marks...
2021: Journal of Diabetes Research