Data Augmentation for Accuracy Improvement of Retinal Layer Segmentation from OCT Images
Tsubasa Konno (Tohoku University), Takahiro Ninomiya (Tohoku University), Kanta Miura (Tohoku University), Koichi Ito (Tohoku University), Noriko Himori (Tohoku University), Parmanand Sharma (Tohoku University), Toru Nakazawa (Tohoku University), Takafumi Aoki (Tohoku University)
Internationall Forum on Medical Imaging in Asia, pp. 1--1, March 2025.
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 it is difficult even for experts to manually measure the thickness from OCT images, retinal layer segmentation methods 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 and may also falsely segment background noise as retinal layers. Addressing the above problems, we propose two data augmentation methods, i.e., formula-driven data augmentation (FDDA) and partial retinal layer copying (PRLC), for retinal layer segmentation