Classification of OCT Images of the Human Eye Using Mobile Devices

The aim of this study was to develop a mobile application for Android devices dedicated to the classification of pathological changes in human eye optical coherence tomography (OCT) B-scans. The classification process is conducted using convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Six models were trained during the study: a simple convolutional neural network with three convolutional layers, VGG16, InceptionV3, Xception, Joint Attention Network + MobileNetV2 and OpticNet-71. All of these models were converted to TensorFlow Lite format to implement them into a mobile application. For this purpose, three models with the best parameters were chosen, taking accuracy, precision, recall, F1-score and confusion matrix into consideration. The Android application designed for the classification of OCT images was developed using the Kotlin programming language within the Android Studio integrated development environment. With the application, classification can be performed on an image chosen from the user’s files or an image acquired using the photo-taking function. The results of the classification are displayed for three neural networks, along with the respective classification times for each neural network and the associated image undergoing the classification task. The mobile application has been tested using various smartphones. The testing phase included an evaluation of image classification times and score accuracy, considering factors such as image acquisition method, i.e., camera or gallery.