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retina-VAE: Variationally Decoding the Spectrum of Macular Disease

07/11/2019
by   Stephen G. Odaibo, et al.
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In this paper, we seek a clinically-relevant latent code for representing the spectrum of macular disease. Towards this end, we construct retina-VAE, a variational autoencoder-based model that accepts a patient profile vector (pVec) as input. The pVec components include clinical exam findings and demographic information. We evaluate the model on a subspectrum of the retinal maculopathies, in particular, exudative age-related macular degeneration, central serous chorioretinopathy, and polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy. For these three maculopathies, a database of 3000 6-dimensional pVecs (1000 each) was synthetically generated based on known disease statistics in the literature. The database was then used to train the VAE and generate latent vector representations. We found training performance to be best for a 3-dimensional latent vector architecture compared to 2 or 4 dimensional latents. Additionally, for the 3D latent architecture, we discovered that the resulting latent vectors were strongly clustered spontaneously into one of 14 clusters. Kmeans was then used only to identify members of each cluster and to inspect cluster properties. These clusters suggest underlying disease subtypes which may potentially respond better or worse to particular pharmaceutical treatments such as anti-vascular endothelial growth factor variants. The retina-VAE framework will potentially yield new fundamental insights into the mechanisms and manifestations of disease. And will potentially facilitate the development of personalized pharmaceuticals and gene therapies.

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