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ArticleBiomedical optics express2025

Differential artery-vein analysis in OCTA for predicting the anti-VEGF treatment outcome of diabetic macular edema.

Mansour Abtahi, Albert K Dadzie, Behrouz Ebrahimi, Boda Huang, Yi-Ting Hsieh, Xincheng Yao

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Article in Biomedical optics express, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Mansour AbtahiDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7463-9470
Albert K DadzieDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3466-5188
Behrouz EbrahimiDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3390-7330
Boda HuangDepartment of Ophthalmology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
Yi-Ting HsiehDepartment of Ophthalmology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
Xincheng YaoDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0356-3242

Funding

Translational Core for Therapeutic and Diagnostic DevelopmentP30EY001792 · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · 1985 to 2025
$3.9M
Differential artery-vein analysis in OCT angiography for objective classification of diabetic retinopathyR01EY030842 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · PI Jennifer Irene Lim, XINCHENG YAO · 2023 to 2023
$363k
Functional tomography of neurovascular coupling interactions in healthy and diseased retinasR01EY030101 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · PI XINCHENG YAO · 2022 to 2022
$304k
NEI NIH HHS P30 EY001792NEI NIH HHS R01 EY023522NEI NIH HHS R01 EY029673NEI NIH HHS R01 EY030101NEI NIH HHS R01 EY030842
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Abstract

This study evaluates the role of differential artery-vein (AV) analysis in optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) for treatment outcome prediction of diabetic macular edema (DME). Deep learning AV segmentation in OCTA enabled the robust extraction of quantitative AV features, including perfusion intensity density (PID), blood vessel density (BVD), vessel skeleton density (VSD), vessel area flux (VAF), blood vessel caliber (BVC), blood vessel tortuosity (BVT), and vessel perimeter index (VPI). Support vector machine (SVM) classifiers were employed to predict changes in best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) and central retinal thickness (CRT). Comparative analysis revealed that differential AV analysis significantly enhanced prediction performance, with BCVA accuracy improved from 70.45% to 86.36% and CRT accuracy enhanced from 68.18% to 79.55% compared to traditional OCTA analysis. These findings underscore the potential of AV analysis as a transformative tool for advancing personalized therapeutic strategies and improving clinical decision-making in managing DME.

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