Multi-task deep learning-based survival analysis on the prognosis of late AMD using the longitudinal data in AREDS.

TitleMulti-task deep learning-based survival analysis on the prognosis of late AMD using the longitudinal data in AREDS.
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2021
AuthorsGhahramani G, Brendel M, Lin M, Chen Q, Keenan T, Chen K, Chew E, Lu Z, Peng Y, Wang F
JournalAMIA Annu Symp Proc
Volume2021
Pagination506-515
Date Published2021
ISSN1942-597X
KeywordsDeep Learning, Disease Progression, Fundus Oculi, Humans, Macular Degeneration, Prognosis, Survival Analysis
Abstract

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of vision loss. Some patients experience vision loss over a delayed timeframe, others at a rapid pace. Physicians analyze time-of-visit fundus photographs to predict patient risk of developing late-AMD, the most severe form of AMD. Our study hypothesizes that 1) incorporating historical data improves predictive strength of developing late-AMD and 2) state-of-the-art deep-learning techniques extract more predictive image features than clinicians do. We incorporate longitudinal data from the Age-Related Eye Disease Studies and deep-learning extracted image features in survival settings to predict development of late- AMD. To extract image features, we used multi-task learning frameworks to train convolutional neural networks. Our findings show 1) incorporating longitudinal data improves prediction of late-AMD for clinical standard features, but only the current visit is informative when using complex features and 2) "deep-features" are more informative than clinician derived features. We make codes publicly available at https://github.com/bionlplab/AMD_prognosis_amia2021.

Alternate JournalAMIA Annu Symp Proc
PubMed ID35308963
PubMed Central IDPMC8861665
Grant ListR01 MH124740 / MH / NIMH NIH HHS / United States
RF1 AG072449 / AG / NIA NIH HHS / United States