Abstract
Pathological myopia, the seventh leading cause of legal blindness in United States, is a condition caused by pathological axial elongation and eyes that deviates from the normal distribution curve of axial length, resulting in impaired vision. Studies have shown that ocular risks associated with myopia should not be underestimated, and there is a public health need to prevent the onset or progression of myopia. Peripapillary atrophy (PPA) is one of the clinical indicators for pathological myopia. In this paper, we introduce a novel method, to detect pathological myopia via peripapaillary atrophy feature by means of variational level set. This method is a core algorithm of our system, PAMELA, an automated system for the detection of pathological myopia. The proposed method has been tested on 40 images from Singapore Cohort study Of the Risk factors for Myopia (SCORM), producing a 95% accuracy of correct assessment, and a sensitivity and specificity of 0.9 and 1 respectively. The results highlight the potential of PAMELA as a possible clinical tool for objective mass screening of pathological myopia.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society |
| Subtitle of host publication | Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009 |
| Publisher | IEEE Computer Society |
| Pages | 3609-3612 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781424432967 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2009 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009 - Minneapolis, MN, United States Duration: 2 Sept 2009 → 6 Sept 2009 |
Publication series
| Name | Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009 |
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Conference
| Conference | 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009 |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Minneapolis, MN |
| Period | 2/09/09 → 6/09/09 |
UN SDGs
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
Free Keywords
- Level set
- Pathological myopia
- Peripapillary atrophy (ppa)
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Biomedical Engineering
- General Medicine
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