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In this study, we propose to employ optical coherence tomography (OCT) combined with deep learning techniques for melasma diagnostics. Specifically, a portable spectral domain OCT system with a handheld probe was developed for clinical skin imaging. Then, a diagnostic model was built based on the VGG16 neural network by adding a spatial attention mechanism. The results show that a good differentiation with an accuracy of 94.2% can be achieved among health datasets from healthy volunteers, and melasma and tissue\u2010around\u2010melasma datasets from melasma patients. Moreover, the same trained model was applied to treatment evaluation, showing a good capability to assess antivascular medicine treatment. 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