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In Vivo Dynamics of Retinal Microglial Activation During Neurodegeneration: Confocal Ophthalmoscopic Imaging and Cell Morphometry in Mouse Glaucoma
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Adaptive Gating and Focal Debiasing for robust few-shot retinal disease classification.

Stewart Muchuchuti1, Serestina Viriri1

  • 1Discipline of Computer Science, School of Agriculture and Science, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
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Adaptive Gating and Focal Debiasing (AGFD) enhances few-shot retinal disease classification by dynamically fusing features and prioritizing underrepresented classes, improving accuracy and reliability for rare conditions.

Area of Science:

  • Ophthalmology
  • Computer Science
  • Artificial Intelligence

Background:

  • Few-shot learning models for retinal disease classification face challenges with static feature fusion and poor performance on minority classes.
  • Existing hybrid attention models struggle to adaptively integrate global and local visual information, limiting their effectiveness in data-scarce scenarios.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce the Adaptive Gating and Focal Debiasing (AGFD) method to improve automated retinal disease classification in few-shot learning settings.
  • To address limitations of static feature fusion and enhance performance on underrepresented classes in retinal image datasets.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a Dynamic Attention Gating (DAG) module within the AGFD framework to learn input-specific weights for global and local attention branches.
Keywords:
attention mechanismclass imbalancecomputer-aided diagnosisdeep learningdynamic gatingfew-shot learningfocal lossretinal imaging

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In Vivo Dynamics of Retinal Microglial Activation During Neurodegeneration: Confocal Ophthalmoscopic Imaging and Cell Morphometry in Mouse Glaucoma
12:48

In Vivo Dynamics of Retinal Microglial Activation During Neurodegeneration: Confocal Ophthalmoscopic Imaging and Cell Morphometry in Mouse Glaucoma

Published on: May 11, 2015

  • Replaced the standard cross-entropy loss function with focal loss to emphasize learning from hard-to-classify, underrepresented cases.
  • Evaluated the AGFD model on the ODIR-5K dataset using episodic evaluation across various few-shot settings (e.g., 5-shot, 10-shot).

    • Main Results:

    • AGFD demonstrated significant improvements over a strong hybrid-attention baseline, achieving 78.7% accuracy and 76.9% macro-F1 at 5-shot, and 83.2% accuracy at 10-shot.
    • Minority classes, including Glaucoma, Cataract, and Hypertension, experienced substantial gains, with F1 scores increasing by 11-15 percentage points.
    • Analysis of the gating mechanism revealed adaptive weighting: global features were prioritized for widespread conditions, while local features were favored for lesion-driven diseases.

    Conclusions:

    • The combination of adaptive feature fusion and a debiased objective function (AGFD) enhances both overall accuracy and reliability for underrepresented classes in retinal disease classification.
    • The proposed method represents a significant step towards developing more clinically useful automated screening tools for retinal conditions, particularly in resource-limited settings.
    • Dynamic attention gating effectively balances global and local feature importance based on disease characteristics, leading to more robust classification performance.