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ArticleIEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics2020

Spatially Aware Dense-LinkNet Based Regression Improves Fluorescent Cell Detection in Adaptive Optics Ophthalmic Images.

Jianfei Liu, Yoo-Jean Han, Tao Liu, Nancy Aguilera, Johnny Tam

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Article in IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jianfei Liu
Yoo-Jean Han
Tao Liu
Nancy Aguilera
Johnny Tam
National Institutes of Health · US

Funding

Adaptive Optics Retinal ImagingZIAEY000544 · NEI · NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE · PI TAM, JOHNNY · 2015 to 2025
$24.0M
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA EY000544
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells play an important role in nourishing retinal neurosensory photoreceptor cells, and numerous blinding diseases are associated with RPE defects. Their fluorescence signature can now be visualized in the living human eye using adaptive optics (AO) imaging combined with indocyanine green (ICG), which motivates us to develop an automated RPE detection method to improve the quantitative evaluation of RPE status in patients. This paper proposes a spatially-aware, Dense-LinkNet-based regression approach to improve the detection of in vivo fluorescent cell patterns, achieving precision, recall, and F1-Score of 93.6 ± 4.3%, 81.4 ± 9.5%, and 86.7 ± 5.7%, respectively. These results demonstrate the utility of incorporating spatial inputs into a deep learning-based regression framework for cell detection.

Indexed as

Deep LearningFluorescent DyesRetinal Pigment EpitheliumDiagnostic Techniques, OphthalmologicalHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedIndocyanine GreenOptical ImagingFluorescent DyesIndocyanine Green

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PMID32750947
PMCPMC7754796
OpenAlexW3036815122

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