US 12,079,987 B2
Automated quality assessment of ultra-widefield angiography images
Justis P. Ehlers, Cleveland, OH (US); and Sunil K. Srivastava, Cleveland, OH (US)
Assigned to THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION, Cleveland, OH (US)
Filed by THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION, Cleveland, OH (US)
Filed on Sep. 20, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/479,717.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/182,416, filed on Apr. 30, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/080,688, filed on Sep. 19, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0092776 A1, Mar. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. G06T 7/00 (2017.01)
CPC G06T 7/0012 (2013.01) [G06T 2207/10101 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20081 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20084 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30041 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30168 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
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1. A method for fully automated quality assessment of ultra- widefield angiography images, comprising:
obtaining a series of ultra-widefield angiography images of a retina of a patient;
providing each of the series of ultra-widefield angiography images to a neural network trained on a set of labeled images to generate a quality parameter for each of the series of ultra-widefield angiography images representing a quality of the image, each of the set of labeled images being assigned to one of a plurality of classes representing image quality, the plurality of classes comprising a first class, representing a highest image quality in which each image has a field of view above a first threshold percentage, a second class, representing an acceptable level of image quality in which each image has a field of view above a second threshold percentage, a third class, representing a poor level of image quality in which each image has a field of view above a third threshold percentage, and a fourth class, representing images that are unacceptable for use in assessing the state of the retina of the patient; and
providing an instruction to a user to obtain a new series of ultra-widefield angiography images of the retina of the patient if no image of the series of ultra- widefield angiography images has a quality parameter that meets a threshold value.