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01-03-2020 | Angiography | Original Paper

Reliability of foveal avascular zone metrics automatically measured by Cirrus optical coherence tomography angiography in healthy subjects

Authors: Aidi Lin, Danqi Fang, Cuilian Li, Carol Y. Cheung, Haoyu Chen

Published in: International Ophthalmology | Issue 3/2020

Abstract

Purpose

To investigate the reliability of the foveal avascular zone (FAZ) metrics automatically measured using Cirrus optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) embedded algorithm compared to human manual measurement.

Methods

Thirty-five eyes of 35 healthy subjects were enrolled and scanned four times continuously on Zeiss Cirrus HD-OCT 5000. The FAZ metrics (area, circularity and perimeter) of the superficial capillary plexus were measured automatically using the embedded tool and manually measured by the two independent observers using ImageJ. The repeatability of the four scans within all methods of measurements was calculated. The agreement of the manual vs automated measurement was also analyzed.

Results

The repeatability of the automated algorithm was only poor to moderate (intraclass correlation coefficients [ICCs] for the area, perimeter and circularity were 0.600, 0.405 and 0.221, respectively) while the repeatability of the manually measured FAZ area and perimeter was good [([ICCs] ranged from 0.845 to 0.877) except the circularity (ICC = 0.538 to 0.608)]. The ranges of 95% limits of agreement between the manual measurements by the two observers were only 20% to 31% of those of automated–manual agreement. The Cirrus inbuilt algorithm obviously outlined the border of FAZ wrongly in 22.9% cases.

Conclusion

Caution should be taken when using the automated measurement results of FAZ metrics in Cirrus OCTA, because of the low repeatability and poor agreement compared with the manual measurement.

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Title: Reliability of foveal avascular zone metrics automatically measured by Cirrus optical coherence tomography angiography in healthy subjects
Authors: Aidi Lin
Danqi Fang
Cuilian Li
Carol Y. Cheung
Haoyu Chen
Publication date: 01-03-2020
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Keyword: Angiography
Published in: International Ophthalmology / Issue 3/2020
Print ISSN: 0165-5701
Electronic ISSN: 1573-2630
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10792-019-01238-x

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Reliability of foveal avascular zone metrics automatically measured by Cirrus optical coherence tomography angiography in healthy subjects

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