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Diabetic retinopathy detection and stage classification in eye fundus images using active deep learning

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Retinal fundus image analysis (RFIA) for diabetic retinopathy (DR) screening can be used to reduce the risk of blindness among diabetic patients. The RFIA screening programs help the ophthalmologists to cope with this paramount visual impairment problem. In this article, an automatic recognition of the DR stage is proposed based on a new multi-layer architecture of active deep learning (ADL). To develop the ADL system, we used the convolutional neural networks (CNN) model to automatically extract features compare to handcrafted-based features. However, the training of CNN procedure requires an immense size of labeled data that makes it almost difficult in the classification phase. As a result, a label-efficient CNN architecture is presented known as ADL-CNN by using one of the active learning methods known as an expected gradient length (EGL). This ADL-CNN model can be seen as a two-stage process. At first, the proposed ADL-CNN system selects both the most informative patches and images by using some ground truth labels of training samples to learn the simple to complex retinal features. Next, it provides useful masks for prognostication to assist clinical specialists for the important eye sample annotation and segment regions-of-interest within the retinograph image to grade five severity-levels of diabetic retinopathy. To test and evaluate the performance of ADL-CNN model, the EyePACS benchmark is utilized and compared with state-of-the-art methods. The statistical metrics are used such as sensitivity (SE), specificity (SP), F-measure and classification accuracy (ACC) to measure the effectiveness of ADL-CNN system. On 54,000 retinograph images, the ADL-CNN model achieved an average SE of 92.20%, SP of 95.10%, F-measure of 93% and ACC of 98%. Hence, the new ADL-CNN architecture is outperformed for detecting DR-related lesions and recognizing the five levels of severity of DR on a wide range of fundus images.

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We would like to thank all the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments. This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NNSFC) under the grant no: (61672322, 61672324) and is a part of a Ph.D. research project conducted in the intelligent and media research center (iLEARN), School of Computer Science and Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, China.

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Qureshi, I., Ma, J. & Abbas, Q. Diabetic retinopathy detection and stage classification in eye fundus images using active deep learning. Multimed Tools Appl 80, 11691–11721 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-020-10238-4

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