Comparison of nonparametric methods for static visual field interpolation

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• 作者：Travis B. Smith ; Ning Smith…
• 关键词：Interpolation ; Visual fields ; Perimetry ; Retinitis pigmentosa
• 刊名：Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：55
• 期：1
• 页码：117-126
• 全文大小：2717KB
• 刊物类别：Engineering
• 刊物主题：Human Physiology; Biomedical Engineering; Imaging / Radiology; Computer Applications;
• 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• ISSN：1741-0444
• 卷排序：55

文摘

Visual field testing with standard automated perimetry produces a sparse representation of a sensitivity map, sometimes called the hill of vision (HOV), for the retina. Interpolation or resampling of these data is important for visual display, clinical interpretation, and quantitative analysis. Our objective was to compare several popular interpolation methods in terms of their utility to visual field testing. We evaluated nine nonparametric scattered data interpolation algorithms and compared their performances in normal subjects and patients with retinal degeneration. Interpolator performance was assessed by leave-one-out cross-validation accuracy and high-density interpolated HOV surface smoothness. Radial basis function (RBF) interpolation with a linear kernel yielded the best accuracy, with an overall mean absolute error (MAE) of 2.01 dB and root-mean-square error (RMSE) of 3.20 dB that were significantly better than all other methods (p ≤ 0.003). Thin-plate spline RBF interpolation yielded the best smoothness results (p < 0.001) and scored well for accuracy with overall MAE and RMSE values of 2.08 and 3.28 dB, respectively. Natural neighbor interpolation, which may be a more readily accessible method to some practitioners, also performed well. While no interpolator will be universally optimal, these interpolators are good choices among nonparametric methods.