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OCT mapping with AI helped improve epiretinal membrane peeling.

Operating times and complications decreased with the tool.

LONG BEACH, Calif. — An AI-powered OCT mapping method can help optimize epiretinal membrane peeling , according to a trial.

“What we’re trying to do is to take those important features that we find in OCT images preoperatively and register them onto a surgical map that surgeons can see live,” Vinit B. Mahajan, MD, PhD, told Healio at the American Society of Retina Specialists annual meeting. “The first problem that we’ve tackled are epiretinal membranes. When you do surgery and you go in with your forceps, how do you know where to put your forceps to get that initial pinch and peel maneuver?”

Mahajan and colleagues found a special OCT feature th

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