A deep learning system for detecting diabetic retinopathy across the disease spectrum

Ling Dai, Liang Wu, Huating Li, Chun Cai, Qiang Wu, Hongyu Kong, Ruhan Liu, Xiangning Wang, Xuhong Hou, Yuexing Liu, Xiaoxue Long, Yang Wen, Lina Lu, Yaxin Shen, Yan Chen, Dinggang Shen, Xiaokang Yang, Haidong Zou, Bin Sheng, Weiping Jia

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Abstract

Retinal screening contributes to early detection of diabetic retinopathy and timely treatment. To facilitate the screening process, we develop a deep learning system, named DeepDR, that can detect early-to-late stages of diabetic retinopathy. DeepDR is trained for real-time image quality assessment, lesion detection and grading using 466,247 fundus images from 121,342 patients with diabetes. Evaluation is performed on a local dataset with 200,136 fundus images from 52,004 patients and three external datasets with a total of 209,322 images. The area under the receiver operating characteristic curves for detecting microaneurysms, cotton-wool spots, hard exudates and hemorrhages are 0.901, 0.941, 0.954 and 0.967, respectively. The grading of diabetic retinopathy as mild, moderate, severe and proliferative achieves area under the curves of 0.943, 0.955, 0.960 and 0.972, respectively. In external validations, the area under the curves for grading range from 0.916 to 0.970, which further supports the system is efficient for diabetic retinopathy grading.

Original languageEnglish
Article number3242
JournalNature communications
Volume12
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021 Dec 1
Externally publishedYes

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ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Chemistry
  • General Biochemistry,Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • General Physics and Astronomy

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