Lirot.ai: A Novel Platform for Crowd-Sourcing Retinal Image Segmentations

Jonathan Fhima, Jan Van Eijgen, Moti Freiman, Ingeborg Stalmans, Joachim A. Behar

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Abstract

Introduction: For supervised deep learning (DL) tasks, researchers need a large annotated dataset. In medical data science, one of the major limitations to develop DL models is the lack of annotated examples in large quantity. This is most often due to the time and expertise required to annotate. We introduce Lirot.ai, a novel platform for facilitating and crowd-sourcing image segmentations. Methods: Lirot.ai is composed of three components; an iPadOS client application named Lirot.ai-app, a back-end server named Lirot.ai-server and a python API name Lirot.ai-API. Lirot.ai-app was developed in Swift 5.6 and Lirot.ai-server is a firebase backend. Lirot.ai-API allows the management of the database. Lirot.ai-app can be installed on as many iPadOS devices as needed so that annotators may be able to perform their segmentation simultaneously and remotely. We incorporate Apple Pencil compatibility, making the segmentation faster, more accurate, and more intuitive for the expert than any other computer-based alternative. Results: We demonstrate the usage of Lirot.ai for the creation of a retinal fundus dataset with reference vasculature segmentations. Discussion and future work: We will use active learning strategies to continue enlarging our retinal fundus dataset by including a more efficient process to select the images to be annotated and distribute them to annotators.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2022 Computing in Cardiology, CinC 2022
ISBN (Electronic)9798350300970
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Event2022 Computing in Cardiology, CinC 2022 - Tampere, Finland
Duration: 4 Sep 20227 Sep 2022

Publication series

NameComputing in Cardiology
Volume2022-September
ISSN (Print)2325-8861
ISSN (Electronic)2325-887X

Conference

Conference2022 Computing in Cardiology, CinC 2022
Country/TerritoryFinland
CityTampere
Period4/09/227/09/22

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Computer Science
  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

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