Fundus Image
Fundus images, photographs of the back of the eye, are crucial for diagnosing various retinal diseases. Current research focuses on improving the accuracy and efficiency of automated analysis using deep learning models, including convolutional neural networks (CNNs), Vision Transformers (ViTs), and generative adversarial networks (GANs), often incorporating techniques like attention mechanisms and self-supervised learning to handle noisy or limited data. These advancements aim to improve diagnostic accuracy, reduce the need for expert interpretation, and enable large-scale screening programs for early detection and intervention of eye diseases, ultimately impacting patient care and public health. A significant area of ongoing work addresses the challenges of generalizability and bias in these models to ensure equitable performance across diverse populations and imaging modalities.
Papers
A Disease-Specific Foundation Model Using Over 100K Fundus Images: Release and Validation for Abnormality and Multi-Disease Classification on Downstream Tasks
Boa Jang, Youngbin Ahn, Eun Kyung Choe, Chang Ki Yoon, Hyuk Jin Choi, Young-Gon Kim
MM-UNet: A Mixed MLP Architecture for Improved Ophthalmic Image Segmentation
Zunjie Xiao, Xiaoqing Zhang, Risa Higashita, Jiang Liu
A Dual Attention-aided DenseNet-121 for Classification of Glaucoma from Fundus Images
Soham Chakraborty, Ayush Roy, Payel Pramanik, Daria Valenkova, Ram Sarkar
Benchmarking Retinal Blood Vessel Segmentation Models for Cross-Dataset and Cross-Disease Generalization
Jeremiah Fadugba, Patrick Köhler, Lisa Koch, Petru Manescu, Philipp Berens