FAZSeg: A New User-Friendly Software for Quantification of the Foveal Avascular Zone

TL;DR

FAZSeg is an open-access, user-friendly software designed to accurately segment and quantify the Foveal Avascular Zone in retinal images, addressing the lack of automated tools for deep retinal layer analysis.

Contribution

The paper introduces FAZSeg, the first automated, user-friendly software for deep retinal layer FAZ segmentation, enhancing accuracy and accessibility.

Findings

FAZSeg provides accurate FAZ measurements compared to manual segmentation.

The software is open-access with an intuitive GUI.

It fills a gap in automated deep retinal layer analysis.

Abstract

Various ocular diseases and high myopia influence the anatomical reference point Foveal Avascular Zone (FAZ) dimensions. Therefore, it is important to segment and quantify the FAZs dimensions accurately. To the best of our knowledge, there is no automated tool or algorithms available to segment the FAZ's deep retinal layer. The paper describes a new open-access software with a user-friendly Graphical User Interface (GUI) and compares the results with the ground truth (manual segmentation).