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The optic disc margin is of interest due to its use for detecting and managing glaucoma. We developed a method for segmenting the optic disc margin of the optic nerve head (ONH) in spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (OCT) images using a graph-theoretic approach. A small number of slices surrounding the Bruch's membrane opening (BMO) plane was taken and used for creating planar 2-D projection images. An edge-based cost function - more specifically, a signed edge-based term favoring a dark-to-bright transition in the vertical direction of polar projection images (corresponding to the radial direction in Cartesian coordinates) - was obtained. Information from the segmented vessels was used to suppress the vasculature influence by modifying the polar cost function and remedy the segmentation difficulty due to the presence of large vessels. The graph search was performed in the modified edge …