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ArticleIEEE transactions on instrumentation and measurement2024

Lightweight Retinal Layer Segmentation With Global Reasoning.

Xiang He, Weiye Song, Yiming Wang, Fabio Poiesi, Ji Yi, Manishi Desai, Quanqing Xu, Kongzheng Yang, Yi Wan

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Article in IEEE transactions on instrumentation and measurement, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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Xiang HeSchool of Mechanical Engineering, and also with the Joint SDU-NTU Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research (C-FAIR), Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China.
Weiye SongSchool of Mechanical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250061, Shandong, China.
Yiming WangFondazione Bruno Kessler, Via Sommarive 18, Povo, TN 38123, Italy.
Fabio PoiesiFondazione Bruno Kessler, Via Sommarive 18, Povo, TN 38123, Italy.
Ji YiDepartment of Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21231, USA.
Manishi DesaiDepartment of Ophthalmology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston 02118, USA.
Quanqing XuSchool of Mechanical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250061, Shandong, China.
Kongzheng YangSchool of Mechanical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250061, Shandong, China.
Yi WanSchool of Mechanical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250061, Shandong, China.

Funding

Predictive markers for diabetic retinopathy via quantitative imaging of retinal capillary functionsR01NS108464 · NINDS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI YI, JI · 2018 to 2022
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NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS108464
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Automatic retinal layer segmentation with medical images, such as optical coherence tomography (OCT) images, serves as an important tool for diagnosing ophthalmic diseases. However, it is challenging to achieve accurate segmentation due to low contrast and blood flow noises presented in the images. In addition, the algorithm should be light-weight to be deployed for practical clinical applications. Therefore, it is desired to design a light-weight network with high performance for retinal layer segmentation. In this paper, we propose LightReSeg for retinal layer segmentation which can be applied to OCT images. Specifically, our approach follows an encoder-decoder structure, where the encoder part employs multi-scale feature extraction and a Transformer block for fully exploiting the semantic information of feature maps at all scales and making the features have better global reasoning capabilities, while the decoder part, we design a multi-scale asymmetric attention (MAA) module for preserving the semantic information at each encoder scale. The experiments show that our approach achieves a better segmentation performance compared to the current state-of-the-art method TransUnet with 105.7M parameters on both our collected dataset and two other public datasets, with only 3.3M parameters.

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light-weightmulti-scale asymmetric attentionretinal layer segmentationvisible-light OCT

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PMID39867724
PMCPMC11759324

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