Wide-field corneal subbasal nerve plexus mosaics in age-controlled healthy and type 2 diabetes populationsShow others and affiliations
2018 (English)In: Scientific Data, E-ISSN 2052-4463, Vol. 5, article id 180075Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
A dense nerve plexus in the clear outer window of the eye, the cornea, can be imaged in vivo to enable non-invasive monitoring of peripheral nerve degeneration in diabetes. However, a limited field of view of corneal nerves, operator-dependent image quality, and subjective image sampling methods have led to difficulty in establishing robust diagnostic measures relating to the progression of diabetes and its complications. Here, we use machine-based algorithms to provide wide-area mosaics of the corneas subbasal nerve plexus (SBP) also accounting for depth (axial) fluctuation of the plexus. Degradation of the SBP with age has been mitigated as a confounding factor by providing a dataset comprising healthy and type 2 diabetes subjects of the same age. To maximize reuse, the dataset includes bilateral eye data, associated clinical parameters, and machine-generated SBP nerve density values obtained through automatic segmentation and nerve tracing algorithms. The dataset can be used to examine nerve degradation patterns to develop tools to non-invasively monitor diabetes progression while avoiding narrow-field imaging and image selection biases.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Nature Publishing Group, 2018. Vol. 5, article id 180075
National Category
Oceanography, Hydrology and Water Resources
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-147931DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2018.75ISI: 000430690900003PubMedID: 29688226OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-147931DiVA, id: diva2:1209546
Note
Funding Agencies|Vasterbotten County Council; Umea University, Sweden; Skane University Hospital; Lund University, Sweden; Ogonfonden in Sweden; Marie Curie grant from the European Commission [316990]; DFG (German Research Foundation) [KO 5003/1-1]; Helmholtz Association, Germany
2018-05-232018-05-232019-01-22Bibliographically approved