Complementary Roles of Image Classification and Vessel Segmentation in AI-Based Screening for Retinopathy of Prematurity Plus Disease in a Kenyan Preterm Cohort

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.05825v1
• Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2026 04:40:16 GMT
• Title: Complementary Roles of Image Classification and Vessel Segmentation in AI-Based Screening for Retinopathy of Prematurity Plus Disease in a Kenyan Preterm Cohort
• Abstract summary: retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a preventable cause of childhood blindness.<n>Plus disease, marked by retinal vessel dilation and tortuosity, triggers treatment but is subjective and variable.<n>Automated screening could extend specialist reach, but African evidence remains limited.
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• Abstract: Background. Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a preventable cause of childhood blindness, with rising burden in low- and middle-income countries where ROP-trained ophthalmologists are scarce. Plus disease, marked by retinal vessel dilation and tortuosity, triggers treatment but is subjective and variable. Automated screening could extend specialist reach, but African evidence remains limited. Methods. We analysed 121 Kenyan preterm infants, covering 237 eyes and 1,635 fundus images graded as No Plus, Pre-Plus or Plus. Vessel annotations from two graders supported segmentation training. Eleven configurations were evaluated for eye-level Plus detection using patient-grouped nested cross-validation, including image classifiers, multiple-instance learning, multi-task segmentation-classification, and segment-then-classify pipelines. Results. Vessel segmentation was feasible, achieving pooled Dice 0.533, IoU 0.368, sensitivity 0.623 and specificity 0.979 on held-out images. RGB classifiers were highly sensitive but over-referred, while segmentation-coupled models were more specific. Combining approaches improved performance: an OR-based screen achieved the highest sensitivity, an AND-based confirmation achieved the highest specificity, and a probability ensemble gave the best balanced performance, with sensitivity 0.692, specificity 0.914 and balanced accuracy 0.803, outperforming the vision classifier alone. Conclusions. Classification and vessel segmentation are complementary for ROP Plus detection in Kenyan data. Classifiers support sensitive case-finding, while segmentation improves specificity and reduces over-referral. African ROP AI systems should use combined workflows and undergo prospective multi-site validation.

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