About the Authors

Stefan Buchka

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

sbuchka@ibe.med.uni-muenchen.de

Affiliation Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry, and Epidemiology (IBE), Faculty of Medicine, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany

Joachim Havla

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Neuroimmunology, LMU University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany

Begüm Irmak Ön

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry, and Epidemiology (IBE), Faculty of Medicine, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany, Staburo GmbH, Munich, Germany

Raphael Rehms

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry, and Epidemiology (IBE), Faculty of Medicine, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany, Chair for AI in Healthcare and Medicine, Technical University of Munich (TUM) and TUM University Hospital, Munich, Germany, Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML), Munich, German

Ulrich Mansmann

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry, and Epidemiology (IBE), Faculty of Medicine, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

JH : reports a grant for OCT research from the Friedrich-Baur-Stiftung, Amgen/Horizon, Sanofi, Roche, and Merck, personal fees and nonfinancial support from Merck, Alexion, Novartis, Roche, Celgene, Biogen, Bayer, Neuraxpharm and Horizon/Amgen, nonfinancial support from the Sumaira-Foundation and Guthy-Jackson Charitable Foundation, all outside the submitted work. BIO: Since February 2025, BIO is employed in Staburo GmbH, a data science company with clients in the biopharma industry. The projects and clients that BIO is involved in are all outside of the scope of the submitted work.