A Composite Retinal Fundus and OCT Dataset to Grade Macular and Glaucomatous Disorders

Taimur Hassan, Hina Raja, Bilal Hassan, Muhammad Usman Akram, Jorge Dias, Naoufel Werghi

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Abstract

Retinopathy represents a group of retinal diseases that causes severe visual impairments and even blindness. Many researchers have publicly released datasets containing fundus or optical coherence tomography (OCT) scans to screen retinal diseases like macular edema (ME) and age-related macular degeneration (AMD). These datasets also contain clinical markings to analyze the retinal layers and retinal lesions within normal and abnormal pathologies. However, to the best of our knowledge, no dataset provides the clinically graded fundus and OCT images reflecting the geographic AMD, neovascular AMD, acute central serous retinopathy (CSR), chronic CSR, centrally involved DME (ci-DME), and glaucomatous pathologies. Furthermore, the majority of the publicly available OCT datasets are acquired through Spectralis Machines, which limits the thorough evaluation of autonomous frameworks to screen retinal pathologies irrespective of the scanner specifications. To overcome these challenges, we present a novel dataset containing composite fundus and OCT scans of each patient, along with detailed annotations for extracting the retinal layers and retinal lesions. Also, contrary to its competitors, the proposed dataset is acquired through Topcon 3D OCT 2000 machine that can be utilized for training (or evaluating) any autonomous frameworks to give the lesion-aware screening and severity grading of the above-mentioned retinal diseases as per the clinical standards. Moreover, in this paper, we are also releasing the retinal annotation software alongside the proposed dataset. This software can help clinicians in quickly marking both fundus and OCT scans, which can be saved later on in any image format. Overall, the proposed dataset contains 9,268 OCT scans and 180 fundus scans from 105 subjects depicting healthy, ci-DME, geographic AMD, neovascular AMD, acute CSR, chronic CSR, and glaucomic pathologies.

Original languageBritish English
Title of host publication2022 2nd International Conference on Digital Futures and Transformative Technologies, ICoDT2 2022
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781665498197
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Event2nd International Conference on Digital Futures and Transformative Technologies, ICoDT2 2022 - Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Duration: 24 May 202226 May 2022

Publication series

Name2022 2nd International Conference on Digital Futures and Transformative Technologies, ICoDT2 2022

Conference

Conference2nd International Conference on Digital Futures and Transformative Technologies, ICoDT2 2022
Country/TerritoryPakistan
CityRawalpindi
Period24/05/2226/05/22

Keywords

  • Fundus Photography
  • Glaucoma
  • Optical Coherence Tomography
  • Retina
  • Retinopathy
  • Topcon

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