Optical coherence tomography (OCT) may be used to acquire cross-sectional or volumetric images of any specimen, including biological specimens such as the retina. Additional processing of the OCT data may be performed to generate images of features of interest. In some embodiments, these features may be in motion relative to their surroundings, e.g., blood in the retinal vasculature. The proposed invention describes a combination of images acquired by OCT, manual segmentations of these images by experts, and an artificial neural network for the automated segmentation and classification of features in the OCT images. As a specific example, the performance of the systems and methods described herein are presented for the automatic segmentation of blood vessels in images acquired with OCT angiography.
