Automated retinopathy of prematurity classification using machine learning

使用机器学习对早产儿视网膜病变进行自动分类

• 批准号: 8445584
• 负责人: MICHAEL F. CHIANG
• 金额: $ 28.35万
• 依托单位: MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-01 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8445584
• 关键词: Address; Algorithms; Blindness; Blood Vessels; Caring; Characteristics; Childhood; Classification; Clinical; Clinical Data; Complement; Computers; Data; Data Set; Databases; Decision Making; Development; Diagnosis; Diagnostic; Disease; Disease Progression; Documentation; Early Diagnosis; Evaluation; Expert Opinion; Funding; Goals; Human; Image; Image Analysis; Infant; Machine Learning; Measures; Medical; Medical Imaging; Methodology; Methods; Modeling; Monitor; Neonatal Intensive Care Units; Online Systems; Ophthalmologist; Ophthalmology; Performance; Pilot Projects; Premature Infant; Process; Public Health; Reading; Research Infrastructure; Research Personnel; Resources; Retinal; Retinal Diseases; Retinopathy of Prematurity; Structure; System; Techniques; Telemedicine; Testing; Time; Training; Travel; Tubular formation; United States; United States National Institutes of Health; Variant; base; bioimaging; biomedical informatics; clinical care; clinical decision-making; clinically significant; computer science; design; disease classification; disorder risk; experience; image processing; improved; public health relevance; research study; retina blood vessel structure; two-dimensional

Project Summary/Abstract The goal of this project is to develop a web-based, semi-automated system for identifying severe retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) with "plus disease," using an existing data set of retinal images collected from previous NIH- funded research studies. ROP is treatable if diagnosed early, yet continues to be a leading cause of childhood blindness throughout the world. Diagnosis and documentation of ophthalmoscopic findings in ROP are subjective and qualitative, and studies have found that there is often significant diagnostic variation, even when experts are shown the exact same clinical data. Computer-based image analysis and the application of machine learning techniques to feature extraction and image classification have potential to address many of these limitations. Recent advances in image processing have had led to sophisticated techniques for tracing vessel-like structures. Additionally, machine-learning techniques will enable us to leverage these existing annotated image databases to improve the performance of our algorithms for vessel segmentation and disease classification. Our overall hypothesis is that retinal vascular features may be quantified and used to assist clinicians in the diagnosis of ROP. These hypotheses will be tested using two Specific Aims: (1) Develop and evaluate semi-automated algorithms to segment retinal vessels and generate a set of retinal vessel-based features. (2) Develop computer-based decision support algorithms that best correlate with expert opinions. Overall, this project will build upon infrastructure developed from previous studies, create potential for improving the accuracy and consistency of clinical ROP diagnosis, provide a demonstration of computer-based decision support from image analysis during real-world medical care, and stimulate future research toward understanding the vascular features associated with severe ROP. This project will be performed by a multi- disciplinary team of investigators with expertise in ophthalmology, biomedical informatics, computer science, machine learning, and image processing.

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