Predicting Chance of Success on Epiretinal Membrane Surgery using Deep Learning

A preliminary study on predicting chance of success on an epiretinal membrane surgery is studied. Given an optical coherence tomography image, the study shows that the multilayer perceptron neural network can achieve 91.0% accuracy. Due to an unbalance of the images of success and failure classes, under-sampling and over-sampling are applied. For oversampling, the images in the failure class are duplicated to balance the number of images compared to the success class. Utilizing the balance dataset, the prediction performance is improved from 91.0% to 93.0% for over-sampling. With the exploitation of, the salient region for training the model and predicting the outcome. The salient region is manually segmented to express the fovea in the OCT. The experimental results evidence an improvement of 1.0% with achievement of 94.0% accuracy.