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nowadays widely available high-resolution retinal imaging in eye clinics. These
practical limitation and discrepancy indeed call for the curation of better benchmark
sets of large scale, richly annotated, and aligned well with the current retinal imaging
practice. One major issue with empirical evaluation lies in the quantification of how
much the predicted vessel trees deviate from the reference annotation. A number of
structural metrics [41–43] are suggested, yet a consensus from the community is still
to be reached.

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