openalexFrontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology2026-07-24
VEA-net: vascular enhancement attention with dual-backbone multi-task learning for comprehensive ROP management across multi-center datasets
Yuehua Chen, Jiajun Wan, Tian Zhang, Zhijiang Wan, Jin Hong, Youpeng Jin
Background Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) is a vasoproliferative retinal disorder and a major cause of childhood blindness worldwide. Clinical ROP management involves three correlated tasks: Plus disease detection, stage classification, and treatment decision-making. Although d…