OP-3 The effectiveness of artificial intelligence in annotating and measuring corneal pathology on OCT.



Hart, Colby, Chen, Xu, Ahmed, Mahmoud, McLean, Keri ORCID: 0000-0002-8907-1176, Somerville, Tobi, Hulpus, Adela, Butt, Gibran, Coco, Giulia, Romano, Vito, Rauz, Saaeha
et al (show 3 more authors) (2023) OP-3 The effectiveness of artificial intelligence in annotating and measuring corneal pathology on OCT. BMJ open ophthalmology, 8 (Suppl ). A1-A2.

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Abstract

*Correspondence, Colby Hart: colbythomashart@gmail.com OBJECTIVE: To determine if corneal OCT images can be characterised and measured using artificial intelligence (AI) and how this compares to manual subjective assessment.<h4>Methods</h4>Phase one. Casia OCT images of patients with corneal disease were included from Birmingham and Liverpool. Individual images were annotated by expert clinicians after concordance training sessions. Two annotations were made: high and low confidence lesion borders. Images were split into training and testing sets. Training data were used to train a DeepLabV3 deep learning model. Testing sets were used to evaluate performance. Lesions were independently evaluated by three masked experts. Phase two. OCT images from patients with microbial keratitis (MK) on days 0, 3, 7 and 28 were annotated by AI after training on normal corneal OCTs. Nonparametric analysis was undertaken using SPSS v25.<h4>Results</h4>Phase one. 456 images from patients with primary cornea disease were used to train the AI model and 43 were used for testing the model. Comparing manual and automated annotation, there was a significant difference between expert clinicians (p=0.03, p=0.001) in deciding whether the AI or subjective annotation was a better representation. This may reflect the variety of lesions included. Phase two. Images of 102 patients with MK were selected from days 0, 3, 7 and 28 and subjected to automated annotation. Data analysis on AI annotation of improvement in MK is due March 2022.<h4>Conclusion</h4>The usefulness of AI for annotating corneal OCT lesions depends on the homogeneity and quality of the image. OCT systems which provide higher resolution images enable better automated annotation.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Humans, Artificial Intelligence, Tomography, Optical Coherence, Cornea
Divisions: Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences > Institute of Life Courses and Medical Sciences
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 05 Oct 2023 13:20
Last Modified: 05 Oct 2023 13:20
DOI: 10.1136/bmjophth-2023-bcm.3
Open Access URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjophth-2023-BCM.3
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3173462