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ReviewMedical & biological engineering & computing2022

The adoption of deep learning interpretability techniques on diabetic retinopathy analysis: a review.

Wei Xiang Lim, ZhiYuan Chen, Amr Ahmed

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Review in Medical & biological engineering & computing, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Wei Xiang LimFaculty of Science and Engineering, School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, Jalan Broga, 43500, Semenyih Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia. hcxwl1@nottingham.edu.my.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1785-3689
ZhiYuan ChenFaculty of Science and Engineering, School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, Jalan Broga, 43500, Semenyih Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia.
Amr AhmedFaculty of Science and Engineering, School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, Jalan Broga, 43500, Semenyih Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a chronic eye condition that is rapidly growing due to the prevalence of diabetes. There are challenges such as the dearth of ophthalmologists, healthcare resources, and facilities that are unable to provide patients with appropriate eye screening services. As a result, deep learning (DL) has the potential to play a critical role as a powerful automated diagnostic tool in the field of ophthalmology, particularly in the early detection of DR when compared to traditional detection techniques. The DL models are known as black boxes, despite the fact that they are widely adopted. They make no attempt to explain how the model learns representations or why it makes a particular prediction. Due to the black box design architecture, DL methods make it difficult for intended end-users like ophthalmologists to grasp how the models function, preventing model acceptance for clinical usage. Recently, several studies on the interpretability of DL methods used in DR-related tasks such as DR classification and segmentation have been published. The goal of this paper is to provide a detailed overview of interpretability strategies used in DR-related tasks. This paper also includes the authors' insights and future directions in the field of DR to help the research community overcome research problems.

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Deep LearningDiabetes MellitusDiabetic RetinopathyHumansDeep learningDiabetic retinopathyInterpretabilityReview

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PMID35083634
PMCPMC8791699

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