In Defense of OCTA: The Reconstruction-Utility Gap in OCT-to-OCTA Synthesis

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arXiv:2608.15626v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) images retinal blood flow, giving capillary-perfusion and foveal-avascular-zone biomarkers that grade diabetic-retinopathy ischemia. Because OCTA hardware is less common than structural OCT, recent work synthesizes it from OCT, reporting strong reconstruction (3D PSNR > 31 dB, SSIM > 0.9). We ask not whether the synthetic image looks similar, but whether it supports the measurements OCTA is acquired for. A frozen real-OCTA segmenter, applied as a probe to two synthesizers (XOCT, TransPro), shows downstream Dice falling with structural fineness: large vessels survive (0.862 -> 0.831) while the fine capillary network collapses (0.798 -> 0.635, five times the large-vessel loss; paired Wilcoxon p < 1e-3), TransPro worse throughout. A matched-blur control shows this detail is fabricated, not blurred. Retrained on a private Spectralis dataset, neither synthesizer reproduces the neovascular lesion (qualitative, n=3). Reconstruction fidelity is not clinical utility; we establish downstream-task fidelity as the evaluation OCT-to-OCTA synthesis needs.

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