arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 1

retinalysis-vascx: An explainable software toolbox for the extraction of retinal vascular biomarkers

arXiv:2602.08580v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Automatic extraction of retinal vascular biomarkers from color fundus images (CFI) is crucial for large-scale studies of the retinal vasculat...

By Jose D. Vargas Quiros, Michael J. Beyeler, Sofia Ortin Vela, EyeNED Reading Center, Sven Bergmann, Caroline C. W. Klaver, Bart Liefers, VascX Research Consortium
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 3

Evaluating Fundus-Specific Foundation Models for Diabetic Macular Edema Detection

The study evaluates fundus-specific foundation models (FM) for detecting diabetic macular edema (DME) in retinal images. It compares two popular FM—RETFound and FLAIR—against a lightweight EfficientNet-B0 backbone across multiple datasets (IDRiD, MESSIDOR-2, and OCT-and-Eye-FundusImages). Results indicate that FM do not consistently outperform fine‑tuned CNNs; EfficientNet-B0 often matches or exceeds FM performance, with FLAIR being the most competitive FM.

By Franco Javier Arellano, Jos\'e Ignacio Orlando
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 24

Counterfactual Explainability Framework With CycleGAN And Counterfactual-Classifier Alignnment Score for Retinal Disease Classification

arXiv:2607. 21068v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated detection of vision impairing retina-based ocular conditions from fundus images is important for early screening, timely referral and reducing dependency on specialist-only assessment, for which neural network-based deep learning (DL) models have been widely utilized.

By Kritanu Chattopadhyay, Sayanjit Singha Roy, Soumya Chatterjee
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 16

International Multi-Centre Validation of Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Precise Discrimination between Normal and Abnormal Retinal Development

The study presents an unsupervised domain adaptation model that classifies normal versus abnormal retinal development using optical coherence tomography (OCT) scans from multiple devices and centres. Trained on labelled data from one OCT system and unlabelled data from another, the ResNet50‑based Domain Adversarial Neural Network achieved accuracies between 87.75% and 96.06% across six source‑to‑target pairings and maintained performance on an unseen Heidelberg Spectralis dataset. The approach demonstrates that OCT classification can be transferred across devices without requiring labelled target data, potentially enabling more consistent assessment of retinal development and large‑scale analysis of existing imaging datasets.

By Zhanhan Tu, Nikhil Reddy, Helen J. Kuht, Ha-Jun Yoon, Gail D. E. Maconachie, Ravi Purohit, Prateek Pani, Line Kessel, Jinu Han, Jing Jin, Shui-Hua Wang, Karthik Bharadwaj, Viral Sheth, Michael Hisaund, Rebecca J. McLean, George Garratt, Chetan Kantibhai Patel, Kanmin Xue, Callum Hunt, Zisen Zhou, Ian De Silva, Seema Teli, Sonal Shah, Vanessa Rodwell, Aarti Patel, Irene Gottlob, Yu-Dong Zhang, Zedong Zheng, Girish Varma, Mervyn G. Thomas