- Robbie Holland14,
- Oliver Leingang15,
- Christopher Holmes16,
- Philipp Anders17,
- Rebecca Kaye19,
- Sophie Riedl15,
- Johannes C. Paetzold14,
- Ivan Ezhov20,
- Hrvoje Bogunović15,
- Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth15,
- Hendrik P. N. Scholl17,18,
- Sobha Sivaprasad16,
- Andrew J. Lotery19,
- Daniel Rueckert14,20 &
- …
- Martin J. Menten14,20
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Abstract
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of blindness in the elderly. Current grading systems based on imaging biomarkers only coarsely group disease stages into broad categories that lack prognostic value for future disease progression. It is widely believed that this is due to their focus on a single point in time, disregarding the dynamic nature of the disease. In this work, we present the first method to automatically propose biomarkers that capture temporal dynamics of disease progression. Our method represents patient time series as trajectories in a latent feature space built with contrastive learning. Then, individual trajectories are partitioned into atomic sub-sequences that encode transitions between disease states. These are clustered using a newly introduced distance metric. In quantitative experiments we found our method yields temporal biomarkers that are predictive of conversion to late AMD. Furthermore, these clusters were highly interpretable to ophthalmologists who confirmed that many of the clusters represent dynamics that have previously been linked to the progression of AMD, even though they are currently not included in any clinical grading system.
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The PINNACLE study is funded by a Wellcome Trust Collaborative Award (ref. 210572/Z/18/Z). This work is also funded by the Munich Center for Machine Learning.
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Robbie Holland, Johannes C. Paetzold, Daniel Rueckert & Martin J. Menten
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Holland, R.et al. (2023). Clustering Disease Trajectories in Contrastive Feature Space for Biomarker Proposal in Age-Related Macular Degeneration. In: Greenspan, H.,et al. Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2023. MICCAI 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14226. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43990-2_68
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