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We investigate the potential of machine learning models for the prediction of visual improvement after macular hole surgery from preoperative data (retinal images and clinical features). Collecting our own data for the task, we end up with…

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Although the U-Net architecture has been extensively used for segmentation of medical images, we address two of its shortcomings in this work. Firstly, the accuracy of vanilla U-Net degrades when the target regions for segmentation exhibit…

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