@inproceedings{a8c09a3d5b234c459f410aff928f94c6,
title = "Reproducibility of Retinal Vascular Phenotypes Obtained with Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography: Importance of Vessel Segmentation",
abstract = "Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) is a non-invasive imaging method that can visualize the finest vascular networks in the human retina. OCTA image analysis has been successfully applied to the investigation of retinal vascular diseases of the eye and other systemic conditions that may manifest in the eye. To characterize and distinguish OCTA images from different pathologies, it is important to identify quantitative metrics and phenotypes that have high reproducibility and are not overly susceptible to the effects of imaging artifacts. This paper demonstrates the reproducibility of several recently demonstrated candidate OCTA quantitative metrics: mean curvature and tortuosity of the whole, foveal, superior, nasal, inferior, and temporal regions; foveal and parafoveal vessel skeleton density; and finally, foveal avascular zone area and acircularity index. This paper also highlights the importance of vessel segmentation choice on reproducibility using two different segmentation methods: optimally oriented flux and Frangi filter.",
keywords = "OCTA imaging, Reproducibility, Retinal vascular phenotype",
author = "Darwon Rashid and Sophie Cai and Ylenia Giarratano and Calum Gray and Charlene Hamid and Grewal, {Dilraj S.} and Tom MacGillivray and Sharon Fekrat and Robbins, {Cason B.} and Srinath Soundararajan and Ma, {Justin P.} and Bernabeu, {Miguel O.}",
note = "Funding Information: Acknowledgements. DR and YG were supported by two Medical Research Council Precision Medicine Doctoral Training Programme scholarships (MR/N013166/1). MOB is supported by grants from EPSRC (EP/R029598/1, EP/T008806/1), Fondation Leducq (17 CVD 03), the European Union{\textquoteright}s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 801423, and British Heart Foundation/The Alan Turing Institute under a Cardiovascular Data Science Award. TJM and MOB acknowledge the funders of the SCONe project (https://www.ed.ac.uk/ophthalmology/scone). This project was supported in part by the Alzheimer{\textquoteright}s Drug Discovery Foundation and the Heed Foundation (SC) and the VitreoRetinal Surgery Foundation (SC). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.; 25th Annual Conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis, MIUA 2021 ; Conference date: 12-07-2021 Through 14-07-2021",
year = "2021",
month = jul,
day = "6",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-80432-9_19",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783030804312",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH",
pages = "238--249",
editor = "Papie{\.z}, {Bart{\l}omiej W.} and Mohammad Yaqub and Jianbo Jiao and Namburete, {Ana I.} and Noble, {J. Alison}",
booktitle = "Medical Image Understanding and Analysis - 25th Annual Conference, MIUA 2021, Proceedings",
address = "Germany",
}