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Imaging features were extracted from fundus photographs. Macular ChT (mChT) and peripapillary ChT (pChT) were measured on swept-source optical coherence tomography scans. All participants were divided randomly into training (70%) and test (30%) sets. Imaging features correlated with ChT were selected by LASSO regression and combined into new indicators of optic disc (IODs) for mChT (IOD_mChT) and for pChT (IOD_pChT) by multivariate regression models in the training set. The performance of IODs was evaluated in the test set.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Results:<\/jats:bold> A significant correlation between IOD_mChT and mChT (<jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic> = 0.650, <jats:italic>R<\/jats:italic><jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup> = 0.423, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.001) was found in the test set. IOD_mChT was negatively associated with axial length (AL) (<jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic> = \u22120.562, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.001) and peripapillary atrophy (PPA) area (<jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic> = \u22120.738, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.001) and positively associated with ovality index (<jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic> = 0.503, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.001) and torsion angle (<jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic> = 0.242, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.001) in the test set. Every 1 \u00d7 10 \u03bcm decrease in IOD_mChT was associated with an 8.87 \u03bcm decrease in mChT. A significant correlation between IOD_pChT and pChT (<jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic> = 0.576, <jats:italic>R<\/jats:italic><jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup> = 0.331, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.001) was found in the test set. IOD_pChT was negatively associated with AL (<jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic> = \u22120.478, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.001) and PPA area (<jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic> = \u22120.651, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.001) and positively associated with ovality index (<jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic> = 0.285, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.001) and torsion angle (<jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic> = 0.180, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.001) in the test set. Every 1 \u00d7 10 \u03bcm decrease in IOD_pChT was associated with a 9.64 \u03bcm decrease in pChT.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Conclusions:<\/jats:bold> The study introduced a machine learning approach to acquire imaging information of early changes of optic disc and peripapillary region and constructed quantitative models significantly correlated with choroidal thickness. 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