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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2021
Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc., Dublin, CA (US);
Carl Zeiss Meditec Ag, Jena, DE;
Luis De Sisternes, San Francisco, CA (US);
Niranchana Manivannan, Fremont, CA (US);
CARL ZEISS MEDITEC, INC., Dublin, CA (US);
CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AG, Jena, DE;
Abstract
A system and method for use with optical coherence tomography (OCT) data to identify a target pathology extracts multiple pathology-characteristic images from the OCT data. The extracted pathology-characteristic images may include a mixture of OCT structural images (including retinal layer thickness information) and OCT angiography images. Optionally, other pathology-characteristic images and data maps (mapped to corresponding positions in the OCT data), such as fundus images and visual field test maps may be accessed as additional pathology-characteristic images. Each pathology-characteristic image defines a different image channel (e.g., 'color channel') per pixel in a composite, channel-coded image, which is then used to train a neural network to search for the target pathology in OCT data. The trained neural network may then receive new composite, channel-coded image and identify/segment the target pathology within the new channel-coded image.