PURPOSE: The objective of this study is to estimate the area of the Foveal Avascular Zone (FAZ) from B-scan OCT images using machine learning algorithms.
Deep learning plays a pivotal role in retinal blood vessel segmentation for medical diagnosis. Despite their significant efficacy, these techniques face two major challenges. Firstly, they often neglect the severe class imbalance in fundus images, wh...
Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
39357269
SNNs are gaining popularity in AI research as a low-power alternative in deep learning due to their sparse properties and biological interpretability. Using SNNs for dense prediction tasks is becoming an important research area. In this paper, we fir...
Glaucoma is a group of neurodegenerative diseases that can lead to irreversible blindness. Yet, the progression can be slowed down if diagnosed and treated early enough. Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) can non-invasively provide valua...
Interdisciplinary sciences, computational life sciences
39222258
As a common disease, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases pose a great harm threat to human wellness. Even using advanced and comprehensive treatment methods, there is still a high mortality rate. Arteriosclerosis, as an important factor refle...
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to introduce SLOctolyzer: an open-source analysis toolkit for en face retinal vessels in infrared reflectance scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (SLO) images.
The recent rise of artificial intelligence represents a revolutionary way of improving current medical practices, including cardiovascular (CV) assessment scores. Retinal vascular alterations may reflect systemic processes such as the presence of CV ...
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Accurate extraction of retinal vascular components is vital in diagnosing and treating retinal diseases. Achieving precise segmentation of retinal blood vessels is challenging due to their complex structure and overlapping v...
Medical & biological engineering & computing
39671159
Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) is a novel non-invasive retinal vessel imaging technique that can display high-resolution 3D vessel structures. The quantitative analysis of retinal vessel morphology plays an important role in the auto...
Journal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases : the official journal of National Stroke Association
39393513
OBJECTIVE: This study aims to investigate whether a deep learning approach incorporating retinal blood vessels can effectively identify ischemic stroke patients with a high burden of White Matter Hyperintensities (WMH) using Nuclear Magnetic Resonanc...