Automated Age-Related Macular Degeneration and Diabetic Macular Edema Detection on OCT Images using Deep Learning

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is an eye disease that damages the retina, causing vision loss. Diabetic macular edema (DME) is also a form of vision loss for diabetic people. It is therefore crucial to detect AMD and DME in the early stages for the timely treatment of the eye and the prevention of any vision impairment. Automatic detection of DME and AMD on optical coherence tomography (OCT) images are presented in this paper. The method used is based on training a deep learning algorithm to classify them into healthy, dry AMD, wet AMD and DME categories. This method outperforms a transfer learning based method proposed recently in the literature for classification of OCT images into AMD and DME categories.