TY - GEN
T1 - An ensembling approach for optic cup detection based on spatial heuristic analysis in retinal fundus images
AU - Wong, Damon W.K.
AU - Liu, Jiang
AU - Tan, Ngan Meng
AU - Fengshou, Yin
AU - Cheung, Carol
AU - Baskaran, Mani
AU - Aung, Tin
AU - Wong, Tien Yin
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Optic cup detection remains a challenging task in retinal image analysis, and is of particular importance for glaucoma evaluation, where disease severity is often assessed by the size of the optic cup. In this paper, we propose spatial heuristic ensembling (SHE), an approach which aims to fuse the advantages of each method based on the specific performance in each defined sector. In this way, we generate an ensembled optic cup which is obtained from the optimal combination of the component methods. We conduct experiments on the ORIGA data set of 650 retinal images and show that the ensemble approach performs better than the individual segmentations, reducing the relative overlap error, and CDR errors by as much as 0.04 CDR units. The results are promising for the continued development of such an approach for improving optic cup segmentation.
AB - Optic cup detection remains a challenging task in retinal image analysis, and is of particular importance for glaucoma evaluation, where disease severity is often assessed by the size of the optic cup. In this paper, we propose spatial heuristic ensembling (SHE), an approach which aims to fuse the advantages of each method based on the specific performance in each defined sector. In this way, we generate an ensembled optic cup which is obtained from the optimal combination of the component methods. We conduct experiments on the ORIGA data set of 650 retinal images and show that the ensemble approach performs better than the individual segmentations, reducing the relative overlap error, and CDR errors by as much as 0.04 CDR units. The results are promising for the continued development of such an approach for improving optic cup segmentation.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84870846294&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/EMBC.2012.6346207
DO - 10.1109/EMBC.2012.6346207
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 23366168
AN - SCOPUS:84870846294
SN - 9781424441198
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS
SP - 1426
EP - 1429
BT - 2012 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2012
T2 - 34th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS 2012
Y2 - 28 August 2012 through 1 September 2012
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