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Abstract #98959 Published in IGR 22-4
Detecting glaucoma with only OCT: Implications for the clinic, research, screening, and AI development
Hood DC; La Bruna S; Tsamis E; Tsamis E; Tsamis E; Thakoor KA; Rai A; Rai A; Leshno A; De Moraes CGV; Cioffi GA; Liebmann JMProgress in Retinal and Eye Research 2022; 0: 101052
A method for detecting glaucoma based only on optical coherence tomography (OCT) is of potential value for routine clinical decisions, for inclusion criteria for research studies and trials, for large-scale clinical screening, as well as for the development of artificial intelligence (AI) decision models. Recent work suggests that the OCT probability (p-) maps, also known as deviation maps, can play a key role in an OCT-based method. However, artifacts seen on the p-maps of healthy control eyes can resemble patterns of damage due to glaucoma. We document in section 2 that these glaucoma-like artifacts are relatively common and are probably due to normal anatomical variations in healthy eyes. We also introduce a simple anatomical artifact model based upon known anatomical variations to help distinguish these artifacts from actual glaucomatous damage. In section 3, we apply this model to an OCT-based method for detecting glaucoma that starts with an examination of the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) p-map. While this method requires a judgment by the clinician, sections 4 and 5 describe automated methods that do not. In section 4, the simple model helps explain the relatively poor performance of commonly employed summary statistics, including circumpapillary RNFL thickness. In section 5, the model helps account for the success of an AI deep learning model, which in turn validates our focus on the RNFL p-map. Finally, in section 6 we consider the implications of OCT-based methods for the clinic, research, screening, and the development of AI models.
Department of Psychology, Columbia University, New York, NY, 10027, USA; Bernard and Shirlee Brown Glaucoma Research Laboratory, Department of Ophthalmology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA, 10032. Electronic address: dch3@columbia.edu.
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