Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University
(Department of Electrical, Information and Physics Engineering, School of Engineering, Tohoku University)
Computer Structures Laboratory

A Study of Data Augmentation for Retinal Layer Segmentation from Retinal OCT Images

Tsubasa Konno   (東北大学),  Takahiro Ninomiya  (東北大学),  Kanta Miura   (東北大学),  Koichi Ito   (東北大学),  Noriko Himori  (東北大学),  Parmanand Sharma  (東北大学),  Toru Nakazawa  (東北大学),  Takafumi Aoki   (東北大学)

電気関係学会東北支部連合大会, August 2024.

Abstract

In ophthalmologic examinations, optical coherence tomography (OCT) images are used to measure thickness of retinal layers that is a significant criterion to diagnose ophthalmopathy. Since itis difficult even for experts to manually measure the thickness from OCT images, retinal layer segmentation methods [1, 2] have been investigated to detect retinal layers from OCT images. Due to lack of labeled training data, these methods cannot deal with a variety of retinal shapes. Furthermore, these methods may falsely segment background noise as retinal layers. To address the above problems, in this paper, we pro- pose two data augmentation methods: formula-driven data augmentation (FDDA) and partial retinal layer copying (PRLC). FDDA emulates a variety of retinal shapes based on mathematical formulas, and increases the variability of retinal shapes in the training data. PRLC duplicates a part of retinal layers and overlays it on the background region as noise, and reduces false segmentation in the background region. Through a set of experiments using public datasets, we demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed methods.