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Intra- and Inter-Slice Contrastive Learning for Point Supervised OCT Fluid Segmentation


Abstract:

OCT fluid segmentation is a crucial task for diagnosis and therapy in ophthalmology. The current convolutional neural networks (CNNs) supervised by pixel-wise annotated m...Show More

Abstract:

OCT fluid segmentation is a crucial task for diagnosis and therapy in ophthalmology. The current convolutional neural networks (CNNs) supervised by pixel-wise annotated masks achieve great success in OCT fluid segmentation. However, requiring pixel-wise masks from OCT images is time-consuming, expensive and expertise needed. This paper proposes an Intra- and inter-Slice Contrastive Learning Network (ISCLNet) for OCT fluid segmentation with only point supervision. Our ISCLNet learns visual representation by designing contrastive tasks that exploit the inherent similarity or dissimilarity from unlabeled OCT data. Specifically, we propose an intra-slice contrastive learning strategy to leverage the fluid-background similarity and the retinal layer-background dissimilarity. Moreover, we construct an inter-slice contrastive learning architecture to learn the similarity of adjacent OCT slices from one OCT volume. Finally, an end-to-end model combining intra- and inter-slice contrastive learning processes learns to segment fluid under the point supervision. The experimental results on two public OCT fluid segmentation datasets (i.e., AI Challenger and RETOUCH) demonstrate that the ISCLNet bridges the gap between fully-supervised and weakly-supervised OCT fluid segmentation and outperforms other well-known point-supervised segmentation methods.
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Image Processing ( Volume: 31)
Page(s): 1870 - 1881
Date of Publication: 09 February 2022

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PubMed ID: 35139015

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