Aidi Lin1, Danqi Fang1, Cuilian Li1, Carol Y Cheung2, Haoyu Chen3. 1. Joint Shantou International Eye Center, Shantou University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, North Dongxia Road, Shantou, 515041, China. 2. Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. 3. Joint Shantou International Eye Center, Shantou University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, North Dongxia Road, Shantou, 515041, China. drchenhaoyu@gmail.com.
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.
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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