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Estimating the foveal avascular zone (FAZ) from widely available fundus photos is feasible. This research demonstrates methods to approximate FAZ metrics, crucial for diagnosing retinal pathologies and assessing visual acuity.

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Area of Science:

  • Ophthalmology
  • Medical Imaging
  • Retinal Vascular Diseases

Background:

  • The foveal avascular zone (FAZ) is critical for visual acuity and linked to retinal pathologies.
  • Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography (OCT-A) accurately visualizes the FAZ but is limited to research settings.
  • Fundus photography is widely accessible and utilized in population studies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the feasibility of estimating the FAZ from standard fundus photographs.
  • To develop and compare different computational approaches for FAZ estimation using fundus images.

Main Methods:

  • Three methods were tested: pixel-level FAZ segmentation, image-level FAZ area regression, and a mask-free pipeline using saliency maps and active contours.
  • The mask-free approach facilitates training without manual alignment of fundus and OCT-A images.
  • Methods were validated against human-graded masks.

Main Results:

  • Segmentation methods trained on pixel-level and image-level data showed good agreement with human annotations (DICE scores of 0.45 and 0.4, respectively).
  • The study confirms the potential of fundus photography for FAZ estimation.
  • A mask-free training pipeline was successfully implemented.

Conclusions:

  • Fundus photography can serve as a viable proxy for estimating FAZ metrics when OCT-A is unavailable.
  • These findings support the broader clinical application of fundus imaging for retinal health assessment.
  • The developed methods offer a pathway for large-scale population studies on retinal vasculature.