Amr Elsawy, Tiarnan D L Keenan, Qingyu Chen, Alisa T Thavikulwat, Sanjeeb Bhandari, Ten Cheer Quek, Jocelyn Hui Lin Goh, Yih-Chung Tham, Ching-Yu Cheng, Emily Y Chew, Zhiyong Lu
BACKGROUND: Cataract diagnosis typically requires in-person evaluation by an ophthalmologist. However, color fundus photography (CFP) is widely performed outside ophthalmology clinics, which could be exploited to increase the accessibility of cataract screening by automated detection. METHODS: DeepOpacityNet was developed to detect cataracts from CFP and highlight the most relevant CFP features associated with cataracts. We used 17,514 CFPs from 2573 AREDS2 participants curated from the Age-Related Eye Diseases Study 2 (AREDS2) dataset, of which 8681 CFPs were labeled with cataracts...
December 16, 2023: Commun Med (Lond)