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Based on clinical manifestations, retinal fluid accumulation is classified into three categories: intraretinal fluid (IRF), subretinal fluid (SRF), and pigment epithelial detachment (PED). PED is primarily associated with diabetic macular edema (DME). In contrast, IRF and SRF play critical roles in diagnosing age\u2010related macular degeneration (AMD) and retinal vein occlusion (RVO). To address challenges posed by variations in OCT imaging devices, as well as the varying sizes, irregular shapes, and blurred boundaries of fluid accumulation areas, this study proposes DAA\u2010UNet, an enhanced UNet architecture. The proposed model incorporates dense connectivity, Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling (ASPP), and attention gate (AG) in the paths of UNet. Dense connectivity expands the model\u2019s depth, whereas ASPP facilitates the extraction of multiscale image features. 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