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AGRF-Net: anatomy-guided reliability fusion for multi-view OCT/OCTA retinal disease classification

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: Optical coherence tomography (OCT) and optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) provide complementary structural and microvascular information for retinal disease assessment. However, subject-level fusion is challenging because disease evidence may be distributed across retinal slabs and the diagnostic relevance of individual projections varies across subjects. We propose AGRF-Net, a multi-view OCT/OCTA classification model that explicitly organizes projection-level features according to retinal anatomical correspondence and learns sample-specific view-contribution weights for structural–vascular evidence fusion. Instead of treating OCT/OCTA projections as exchangeable feature tokens, AGRF-Net preserves their modality identity and retinal slab order during cross-view relation modeling and adaptive view fusion. Specifically, the local–global representation module preserves projection-specific pathological cues while producing relation-oriented semantic features for cross-view interaction. Building on these representations, the anatomy-guided relation graph combines subject-specific feature similarity with a slab-correspondence-based anatomical prior refined during training, thereby constraining information propagation among corresponding and complementary OCT/OCTA projections. Finally, contribution-weighted aggregation integrates the relation-enhanced view embeddings into a subject-level representation. Experiments on OCTA-500 show that AGRF-Net achieves balanced performance in complete six-view OCT/OCTA classification. These results support explicit modeling of slab-level OCT/OCTA correspondence and adaptive view weighting for integrating complementary structural and vascular evidence.

Source: Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences

DOI: 10.1007/s44443-026-01203-6

Authors: Shanshan Wang, Xianglian Fan, Jinqi Zuo, Xiyin Wu, Yang Xu

Institution: Guizhou University

Language: English

Topic: Retinal Imaging and Analysis

Subfield: Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $1,990