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The optic nerve head (ONH) typically experiences complex neural- and connective-tissue structural changes with the development and progression of glaucoma, and monitoring these changes could be critical for improved diagnosis and prognosis in the glaucoma clinic. The gold-standard technique to assess structural changes of the ONH clinically is optical coherence tomography (OCT). However, OCT is limited to the measurement of a few hand-engineered parameters, such as the thickness of the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL), and has not yet been qualified as a stand-alone device for glaucoma diagnosis and prognosis applications. We argue this is because the vast amount of information available in a 3D OCT scan of the ONH has not been fully exploited. In this study we propose a deep learning approach that can: textbf{(1)} fully exploit information from an OCT scan of the ONH; textbf{(2)} describe the structural phenotype of the glaucomatous ONH; and that can textbf{(3)} be used as a robust glaucoma diagnosis tool. Specifically, the structural features identified by our algorithm were found to be related to clinical observations of glaucoma. The diagnostic accuracy from these structural features was $92.0 pm 2.3 %$ with a sensitivity of $90.0 pm 2.4 % $ (at $95 %$ specificity). By changing their magnitudes in steps, we were able to reveal how the morphology of the ONH changes as one transitions from a `non-glaucoma to a `glaucoma condition. We believe our work may have strong clinical implication for our understanding of glaucoma pathogenesis, and could be improved in the future to also predict future loss of vision.
Since the introduction of optical coherence tomography (OCT), it has been possible to study the complex 3D morphological changes of the optic nerve head (ONH) tissues that occur along with the progression of glaucoma. Although several deep learning (
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