1The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
2Chongqing Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Chongqing Eye Institute, Chongqing, China
3Chongqing Branch of National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Chongqing, China
4Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Science, Fudan University Eye and ENT Hospital, Shanghai, China
5NHC Key Laboratory of Myopia, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
6Laboratory of Myopia, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Shanghai, China
7Cixi Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhejiang, China
8Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
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Supplemental Digital Content: The Appendix, available at https://links.lww.com/OPX/A486, shows details about the processing of images acquired from the optical coherence tomography equipment, including attenuation compensation, choroid segmentation, and en face mapping. Choroidal thickness and choroidal vessel density were obtained through technical methods.
Submitted: July 8, 2020
Accepted: January 14, 2021
Funding/Support: National Natural Science Foundation of China (81700870; to ZC) and Ningbo “2025 S&T Megaprojects” (2019B10033; to JY).
Conflict of Interest Disclosure: None of the authors have reported a financial conflict of interest.
Author Contributions: Conceptualization: YZ, ZC, JY; Data Curation: YZ, LZ, JL; Formal Analysis: YZ, LZ, ZC; Funding Acquisition: ZC, JY; Investigation: YZ, LZ; Methodology: YZ, ZC, JY, JL; Project Administration: ZC; Resources: ZC, JY; Software: JL; Validation: LZ; Writing – Original Draft: YZ; Writing – Review & Editing: ZC, JY.
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