Improving Lesion Segmentation for Diabetic Retinopathy Using Adversarial Learning [chapter]

Qiqi Xiao, Jiaxu Zou, Muqiao Yang, Alex Gaudio, Kris Kitani, Asim Smailagic, Pedro Costa, Min Xu
2019 Lecture Notes in Computer Science  
Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is a leading cause of blindness in working age adults. DR lesions can be challenging to identify in fundus images, and automatic DR detection systems can offer strong clinical value. Of the publicly available labeled datasets for DR, the Indian Diabetic Retinopathy Image Dataset (IDRiD) presents retinal fundus images with pixel-level annotations of four distinct lesions: microaneurysms, hemorrhages, soft exudates and hard exudates. We utilize the HEDNet edge detector
more » ... solve a semantic segmentation task on this dataset, and then propose an end-to-end system for pixel-level segmentation of DR lesions by incorporating HEDNet into a Conditional Generative Adversarial Network (cGAN). We design a loss function that adds adversarial loss to segmentation loss. Our experiments show that the addition of the adversarial loss improves the lesion segmentation performance over the baseline.
doi:10.1007/978-3-030-27272-2_29 fatcat:beoj2vn4ancppmgwdarur73hvq