Patterns (Jun 2022)

DeepDRiD: Diabetic Retinopathy—Grading and Image Quality Estimation Challenge

  • Ruhan Liu,
  • Xiangning Wang,
  • Qiang Wu,
  • Ling Dai,
  • Xi Fang,
  • Tao Yan,
  • Jaemin Son,
  • Shiqi Tang,
  • Jiang Li,
  • Zijian Gao,
  • Adrian Galdran,
  • J.M. Poorneshwaran,
  • Hao Liu,
  • Jie Wang,
  • Yerui Chen,
  • Prasanna Porwal,
  • Gavin Siew Wei Tan,
  • Xiaokang Yang,
  • Chao Dai,
  • Haitao Song,
  • Mingang Chen,
  • Huating Li,
  • Weiping Jia,
  • Dinggang Shen,
  • Bin Sheng,
  • Ping Zhang

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 6
p. 100512

Abstract

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Summary: We described a challenge named “Diabetic Retinopathy (DR)—Grading and Image Quality Estimation Challenge” in conjunction with ISBI 2020 to hold three sub-challenges and develop deep learning models for DR image assessment and grading. The scientific community responded positively to the challenge, with 34 submissions from 574 registrations. In the challenge, we provided the DeepDRiD dataset containing 2,000 regular DR images (500 patients) and 256 ultra-widefield images (128 patients), both having DR quality and grading annotations. We discussed details of the top 3 algorithms in each sub-challenges. The weighted kappa for DR grading ranged from 0.93 to 0.82, and the accuracy for image quality evaluation ranged from 0.70 to 0.65. The results showed that image quality assessment can be used as a further target for exploration. We also have released the DeepDRiD dataset on GitHub to help develop automatic systems and improve human judgment in DR screening and diagnosis. The bigger picture: Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the most common disease caused by diabetes. Challenges are held to address real-world issues encountered in the design of DR automated screening systems to advance the technology in this area. Thus, we described a challenge named ''Diabetic Retinopathy (DR)—Grading and Image Quality Estimation Challenge'' in conjunction with the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2020) for fundus image assessment and DR grading. The scientific community responded positively to the challenge. In the challenge, we provided a deep DR image dataset (DeepDRiD) containing regular DR images and ultra-widefield (UWF) DR images, both having image quality and DR grading diagnosis. We discussed details of the three best algorithms in each sub-challenges. The results by the top algorithms showed that image quality assessment can be used as a target for further exploration.

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