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Performance evaluation of automated segmentation software on optical coherence tomography volume data
Author(s) -
Tian Jing,
Varga Boglarka,
Tatrai Erika,
Fanni Palya,
Somfai Gabor Mark,
Smiddy William E.,
Debuc Delia Cabrera
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of biophotonics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.877
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1864-0648
pISSN - 1864-063X
DOI - 10.1002/jbio.201500239
Subject(s) - ground truth , segmentation , computer science , artificial intelligence , software , optical coherence tomography , image segmentation , process (computing) , volume (thermodynamics) , computer vision , pattern recognition (psychology) , medicine , radiology , physics , quantum mechanics , programming language , operating system
Over the past two decades a significant number of OCT segmentation approaches have been proposed in the literature. Each methodology has been conceived for and/or evaluated using specific datasets that do not reflect the complexities of the majority of widely available retinal features observed in clinical settings. In addition, there does not exist an appropriate OCT dataset with ground truth that reflects the realities of everyday retinal features observed in clinical settings. While the need for unbiased performance evaluation of automated segmentation algorithms is obvious, the validation process of segmentation algorithms have been usually performed by comparing with manual labelings from each study and there has been a lack of common ground truth. Therefore, a performance comparison of different algorithms using the same ground truth has never been performed. This paper reviews research‐oriented tools for automated segmentation of the retinal tissue on OCT images. It also evaluates and compares the performance of these software tools with a common ground truth.