Abstract
Background/objectivesWe aim to develop an objective fully automated Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm for MNV lesion size and leakage area segmentation on fluorescein angiography (FA) in patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD).Subjects/methodsTwo FA image datasets collected form large prospective multicentre trials consisting of 4710 images from 513 patients and 4558 images from 514 patients were used to develop and evaluate a deep learning-based algorithm to detect CNV lesion size and leakage area automatically. Manual segmentation of was performed by certified FA graders of the Vienna Reading Center. Precision, Recall and F1 score between AI predictions and manual annotations were computed. In addition, two masked retina experts conducted a clinical-applicability evaluation, comparing the quality of AI based and manual segmentations.ResultsFor CNV lesion size and leakage area segmentation, we obtained F1 scores of 0.73 and 0.65, respectively. Expert review resulted in a slight preference for the automated segmentations in both datasets. The quality of automated segmentations was slightly more often judged as good compared to manual annotations.ConclusionsCNV lesion size and leakage area can be segmented by our automated model at human-level performance, its output being well-accepted during clinical applicability testing. The results provide proof-of-concept that an automated deep learning approach can improve efficacy of objective biomarker analysis in FA images and will be well-suited for clinical application.
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