Mixed-decomposed convolutional network:A lightweight yet efficient convolutional neural network for ocular disease recognition

Eye health has become a global health concern and attracted broad attention.Over the years,researchers have proposed many state-of-the-art convolutional neural networks(CNNs)to assist ophthalmologists in diagnosing ocular diseases efficiently and precisely.However,most existing methods were dedicated to constructing sophisticated CNNs,inevitably ignoring the trade-off between performance and model complexity.To alleviate this paradox,this paper proposes a lightweight yet efficient network architecture,mixeddecomposed convolutional network(MDNet),to recognise ocular diseases.In MDNet,we introduce a novel mixed-decomposed depthwise convolution method,which takes advantage of depthwise convolution and depthwise dilated convolution operations to capture low-resolution and high-resolution patterns by using fewer computations and fewer parameters.We conduct extensive experiments on the clinical anterior segment optical coherence tomography(AS-OCT),LAG,University of California San Diego,and CIFAR-100 datasets.The results show our MDNet achieves a better trade-off between the performance and model complexity than efficient CNNs including MobileNets and MixNets.Specifically,our MDNet outperforms MobileNets by 2.5%of accuracy by using 22%fewer parameters and 30%fewer computations on the AS-OCT dataset.

Machine Learning for Cataract Classification/Grading on Ophthalmic Imaging Modalities:A Survey

Cataracts are the leading cause of visual impairment and blindness globally.Over the years,researchers have achieved significant progress in developing state-of-the-art machine learning techniques for automatic cataract classification and grading,aiming to prevent cataracts early and improve clinicians′diagnosis efficiency.This survey provides a comprehensive survey of recent advances in machine learning techniques for cataract classification/grading based on ophthalmic images.We summarize existing literature from two research directions:conventional machine learning methods and deep learning methods.This survey also provides insights into existing works of both merits and limitations.In addition,we discuss several challenges of automatic cataract classification/grading based on machine learning techniques and present possible solutions to these challenges for future research.