Vision Sensing-Driven Intelligent Ocular Disease Detection Using Conformer-Based Dual Fusion
Zhiwei Guo, Qin Zhang, Peng Xu, Yu Shen, Chinmay Chakraborty, Osama Alfarraj, Keping Yu
Abstract
The deep vision sensing has been a practical tool in early disease detection, and this work aims at an important branch of ocular disease recognition. Although a number of researchers had paid attention to it during past years, fine-grained ocular feature extraction always remains a challenge. To handle with this issue, this work benefits from comprehensive ability of the convolution-Transformer structure (Conformer), and proposes vision sensing-driven intelligent ocular disease detection using conformer-based dual fusion. On the one hand, the proposal combines technical advantages of convolution and visual Transformer to more accurately fuse local subtle features and global representation information in images. On the other hand, the proposal significantly improves accuracy and robustness of the model by optimizing depth and width. Simulation experiments on real-world ocular disease image datasets show that the proposed model exhibits higher performance in ocular disease detection compared to other methods. Numerical results show that it improves the detection accuracy by 1% to 3.7% compared to several mainstream baseline methods. This research result not only promotes the development of ocular disease detection, but also provides more reliable technical support for accurate diagnosis of ophthalmic diseases.