OCT feature analysis guided artery-vein differentiation in OCTA.

Differential artery-vein analysis promises better sensitivity for retinal disease detection and classification. However, clinical optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) instruments lack the function of artery-vein differentiation. This study aims to verify the feasibility of using OCT intensity feature analysis to guide artery-vein differentiation in OCTA. Four OCT intensity profile features, including i) ratio of vessel width to central reflex, ii) average of maximum profile brightness, iii) average of median profile intensity, and iv) optical density of vessel boundary intensity compared to background intensity, are used to classify artery-vein source nodes in OCT. A blood vessel tracking algorithm is then employed to automatically generate the OCT artery-vein map. Given the fact that OCT and OCTA are intrinsically reconstructed from the same raw spectrogram, the OCT artery-vein map is able to guide artery-vein differentiation in OCTA directly.

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