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Abstract
Multiple ophthalmic diseases lead to decreased capillary perfusion that can be visualized using optical coherence tomography angiography images. To quantify the decrease in perfusion, past studies have often used the vessel density, which is the percentage of vessel pixels in the image. However, this method is often not sensitive enough to detect subtle changes in early pathology. More recent methods are based on quantifying non-perfused or intercapillary areas between the vessels. These methods rely upon the accuracy of vessel segmentation, which is a challenging task and therefore a limiting factor for reliability. Intercapillary areas computed from perfusion-distance measures are less sensitive to errors in the vessel segmentation since the distance to the next vessel is only slightly changing if gaps are present in the segmentation. We present a novel method for distinguishing between glaucoma patients and healthy controls based on features computed from the probability density function of these perfusion-distance areas. The proposed approach is evaluated on different capillary plexuses and outperforms previously proposed methods that use handcrafted features for classification. Moreover the results of the proposed method are in the same range as the ones of convolutional neural networks trained on the raw input images and is therefore a computationally efficient, simple to implement and explainable alternative to deep learning-based approaches.
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1 Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen, Department of Ophthalmology, Nürnberg, Germany (GRID:grid.5330.5) (ISNI:0000 0001 2107 3311); Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen, Pattern Recognition Lab, Nürnberg, Germany (GRID:grid.5330.5) (ISNI:0000 0001 2107 3311)
2 Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen, Pattern Recognition Lab, Nürnberg, Germany (GRID:grid.5330.5) (ISNI:0000 0001 2107 3311)
3 Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen, Department of Ophthalmology, Nürnberg, Germany (GRID:grid.5330.5) (ISNI:0000 0001 2107 3311)