Comparison of AI-based retinal fluid monitoring in neovascular age-related macular degeneration with manual assessment by different eye care professionals under optimized conditions.

Journal: Acta ophthalmologica
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Abstract

PURPOSE: To investigate whether automated intra- and subretinal fluid (IRF/SRF) volume measurements are equivalent to manual evaluations by eye care professionals from different backgrounds on real-world optical coherence tomography (OCT) images in neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD).

Authors

  • Martin Michl
    Departments of Ophthalmology, and.
  • Bianca S Gerendas
    Christian Doppler Laboratory for Ophthalmic Image Analysis (OPTIMA), Department of Ophthalmology, Medical University of Vienna, Spitalgasse 23, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
  • Anastasiia Gruber
    Statistics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
  • Felix Goldbach
    Department of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
  • Georgios Mylonas
    Department of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
  • Oliver Leingang
    Department of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
  • Wolf Bühl
    Vienna Clinical Trial Center (VTC), Department of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
  • Stefan Sacu
    Department of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Vienna Clinical Trial Center (VTC), Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
  • Hrvoje Bogunović
    Christian Doppler Laboratory for Ophthalmic Image Analysis (OPTIMA), Department of Ophthalmology, Medical University of Vienna, Spitalgasse 23, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
  • Amir Sadeghipour
    Christian Doppler Laboratory for Ophthalmic Image Analysis, Vienna Reading Center, Department of Ophthalmology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
  • Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth
    Christian Doppler Laboratory for Ophthalmic Image Analysis (OPTIMA), Department of Ophthalmology, Medical University of Vienna, Spitalgasse 23, 1090 Vienna, Austria.