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most citedADAM Challenge: Detecting Age-related Macular Degeneration from Fundus Images

80 citations · 148 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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26 papers

cs.CV2026

A Visual Grounding Benchmark for Retinal OCT with Multimodal Large Language Models

Ronald Fecso, José Morano, Botond Fazekas +6

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) can answer clinical questions about medical images, but trustworthy use requires visual grounding: models should localize the pathology the…

cs.CV2026

FunPiQ: A New Benchmark for Pixel-Level Quality Assessment in Fundus Images

Pengwei Wang, José Morano, Virginia Mares +1

Color fundus photography (CFP) is the most common ophthalmic imaging modality for large-scale screening. However, it is highly susceptible to degradations, making robust fundus ima…

cs.CV2026

Test-Time Adaptation in Optical Coherence Tomography Using Trajectory-Aligned Time-Independent Flow

Veit Hucke, Thomas Pinetz, Gregor Reiter +2

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is essential in ophthalmology, but inconsistent image quality especially in low-cost devices hinders automated analysis. To address this, we intr…

cs.CV2026

EFIQA: Explainable Fundus Image Quality Assessment via Anatomical Priors

Pengwei Wang, José Morano, Qian Wan +1

Image quality control is vital for a wide range of downstream applications. Deep learning-based image quality assessment methods typically train classifiers on dataset-specific qua…

cs.CV2026

Quantification of Uncertainty with Adversarial Models in Medical Image Segmentation

Hana Jebril, Thomas Pinetz, Günter Klambauer +1

Reliable pixel-level uncertainty quantification holds the potential to transform clinical workflows by enabling high-fidelity longitudinal monitoring and distinguishing true pathol…

cs.LG2025

Stochastic Siamese MAE Pretraining for Longitudinal Medical Images

Taha Emre, Arunava Chakravarty, Thomas Pinetz +9

Temporally aware image representations are crucial for capturing disease progression in 3D volumes of longitudinal medical datasets. However, recent state-of-the-art self-supervise…

cs.CV2025

PSScreen V2: Partially Supervised Multiple Retinal Disease Screening

Boyi Zheng, Yalin Zheng, Hrvoje Bogunović +1

In this work, we propose PSScreen V2, a partially supervised self-training framework for multiple retinal disease screening. Unlike previous methods that rely on fully labelled or…

cs.CV2025

PiPViT: Patch-based Visual Interpretable Prototypes for Retinal Image Analysis

Marzieh Oghbaie, Teresa Araújo, Hrvoje Bogunović

Background and Objective: Prototype-based methods improve interpretability by learning fine-grained part-prototypes; however, their visualization in the input pixel space is not al…

cs.CV2025★ 22 cited

MIRAGE: Multimodal foundation model and benchmark for comprehensive retinal OCT image analysis

José Morano, Botond Fazekas, Emese Sükei +7

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a fundamental tool for assisting clinicians in analyzing ophthalmic images, such as optical coherence tomography (OCT). However, developing…

cs.CV2025

Deep Learning for Retinal Degeneration Assessment: A Comprehensive Analysis of the MARIO Challenge

Rachid Zeghlache, Ikram Brahim, Pierre-Henri Conze +47

The MARIO challenge, held at MICCAI 2024, focused on advancing the automated detection and monitoring of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) through the analysis of optical cohe…

eess.IV2025

Automatic detection and prediction of nAMD activity change in retinal OCT using Siamese networks and Wasserstein Distance for ordinality

Taha Emre, Teresa Araújo, Marzieh Oghbaie +3

Neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) is a leading cause of vision loss among older adults, where disease activity detection and progression prediction are critical f…

cs.CV2024

Forecasting Disease Progression with Parallel Hyperplanes in Longitudinal Retinal OCT

Arunava Chakravarty, Taha Emre, Dmitrii Lachinov +8

Predicting future disease progression risk from medical images is challenging due to patient heterogeneity, and subtle or unknown imaging biomarkers. Moreover, deep learning (DL) m…

eess.IV2024

Comparative Analysis of Data Augmentation for Retinal OCT Biomarker Segmentation

Markus Unterdechler, Botond Fazekas, Guilherme Aresta +1

Data augmentation plays a crucial role in addressing the challenge of limited expert-annotated datasets in deep learning applications for retinal Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)…

cs.CV2024

Learning Temporally Equivariance for Degenerative Disease Progression in OCT by Predicting Future Representations

Taha Emre, Arunava Chakravarty, Dmitrii Lachinov +3

Contrastive pretraining provides robust representations by ensuring their invariance to different image transformations while simultaneously preventing representational collapse. E…

cs.CV2024

Spatiotemporal Representation Learning for Short and Long Medical Image Time Series

Chengzhi Shen, Martin J. Menten, Hrvoje Bogunović +7

Analyzing temporal developments is crucial for the accurate prognosis of many medical conditions. Temporal changes that occur over short time scales are key to assessing the health…

eess.IV2024★ 14 cited

RRWNet: Recursive Refinement Network for effective retinal artery/vein segmentation and classification

José Morano, Guilherme Aresta, Hrvoje Bogunović

The caliber and configuration of retinal blood vessels serve as important biomarkers for various diseases and medical conditions. A thorough analysis of the retinal vasculature req…

eess.IV2023★ 2 cited

SAMedOCT: Adapting Segment Anything Model (SAM) for Retinal OCT

Botond Fazekas, José Morano, Dmitrii Lachinov +2

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has gained significant attention in the field of image segmentation due to its impressive capabilities and prompt-based interface. While SAM has al…

cs.CV2023★ 4 cited

Pretrained Deep 2.5D Models for Efficient Predictive Modeling from Retinal OCT

Taha Emre, Marzieh Oghbaie, Arunava Chakravarty +9

In the field of medical imaging, 3D deep learning models play a crucial role in building powerful predictive models of disease progression. However, the size of these models presen…

eess.IV2023★ 3 cited

Self-supervised learning via inter-modal reconstruction and feature projection networks for label-efficient 3D-to-2D segmentation

José Morano, Guilherme Aresta, Dmitrii Lachinov +3

Deep learning has become a valuable tool for the automation of certain medical image segmentation tasks, significantly relieving the workload of medical specialists. Some of these…

eess.IV2023★ 2 cited

PALM: Open Fundus Photograph Dataset with Pathologic Myopia Recognition and Anatomical Structure Annotation

Huihui Fang, Fei Li, Junde Wu +6

Pathologic myopia (PM) is a common blinding retinal degeneration suffered by highly myopic population. Early screening of this condition can reduce the damage caused by the associa…

eess.IV2023

Morph-SSL: Self-Supervision with Longitudinal Morphing to Predict AMD Progression from OCT

Arunava Chakravarty, Taha Emre, Oliver Leingang +8

The lack of reliable biomarkers makes predicting the conversion from intermediate to neovascular age-related macular degeneration (iAMD, nAMD) a challenging task. We develop a Deep…

eess.IV2023★ 19 cited

AIROGS: Artificial Intelligence for RObust Glaucoma Screening Challenge

Coen de Vente, Koenraad A. Vermeer, Nicolas Jaccard +33

The early detection of glaucoma is essential in preventing visual impairment. Artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to analyze color fundus photographs (CFPs) in a cost-effectiv…

eess.IV2023

Clustering disease trajectories in contrastive feature space for biomarker discovery in age-related macular degeneration

Robbie Holland, Oliver Leingang, Christopher Holmes +13

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…

cs.CV2022★ 2 cited

TINC: Temporally Informed Non-Contrastive Learning for Disease Progression Modeling in Retinal OCT Volumes

Taha Emre, Arunava Chakravarty, Antoine Rivail +3

Recent contrastive learning methods achieved state-of-the-art in low label regimes. However, the training requires large batch sizes and heavy augmentations to create multiple view…