AUTOMATED METHODS FOR THE OBJECTIVE QUANTIFICATION OF RETINAL CHARACTERISTICS BY RETINAL REGION AND DIAGNOSIS OF RETINAL PATHOLOGY

摘要

Automated and objective methods for quantifying a retinal characteristic from a retinal Optometric Coherence Tomography retinal image, and methods for detecting occult ocular pathology, diagnosing ocular pathology, reducing age-bias in OCT image analysis, and monitoring efficacy ocular/retinal disease therapies based on the quantification method are disclosed.