Patent ID: 9737205
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: A61B,G06T

Claim:
1. A method for analyzing optical coherence tomography (OCT) images of a retina, comprising the steps of: (a) obtaining an OCT image of a subject's retina and corresponding demographic data, including age, gender, and presence of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in the subject; (b) processing the OCT image of step (a) to define an inner retinal pigment epithelium boundary and an outer retinal pigment epithelium boundary; (c) identifying drusen using the boundaries defined in step (b); (d) characterizing identified drusen by quantitative values representing characteristics of identified drusen; and (e) using the quantitative values obtained in step (d) and demographic data from step (a) to obtain a score indicating a likelihood of progressing from dry AMD to wet AMD.