Alessandro Avitabile

Clinical exit strategy in anti-VEGF therapy for neovascular AMD: incidence of recurrence and risk factors for relapse

PURPOSE: To evaluate the recurrence rate of neovascular activity after discontinuation of intravitreal anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) therapy in patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and to identify baseline clinical and imaging factors...

Smartphone-Based Automated Quantification of Bulbar Conjunctival Hyperemia Using Vessel Density Mapping

Purpose: To develop a smartphone application (Conjunctiva VD) that objectively quantifies bulbar conjunctival hyperemia by estimating the conjunctival vessel density (VD) within a user-defined region of interest (ROI). Methods: A total of 100 conjunctival images from 2 public dat...