“…All these artifacts have been recognized to cause breakdown in the performance of the segmentation software and thus leading to incorrect automated retinal thickness measurements (Ho et al, 2009;Ray et al, 2005;Sadda et al, 2006). Several studies have pointed out that segmentation breakdown may also be possible in high quality scans if there are pathological features such as full-thickness macular hole, pigment epithelial detachment, subretinal fluid, retinal fibrosis and hard exudates (Domalpally et al, 2009;Ho et al, 2009;Krebs et al, 2009;Sadda et al, 2006). The presence of media opacities (cataract, vitreous hemorrhage, ect.)…”