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The severity of high myopia patients is classified into C0\u2013C4 according to the Meta Analysis of the Pathologic Myopia (META-PM) classification and their vascular morphological characteristics in ultra-wide field imaging were analyzed using transfer learning methods and RU-net. Correlation with axial length (AL), best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) and age was analyzed. In addition, the vascular morphological characteristics of myopic choroidal neovascularization (mCNV) patients and their matched high myopia patients were compared.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>The RU-net and transfer learning system of blood vessel segmentation had an accuracy of 98.24%, a sensitivity of 71.42%, a specificity of 99.37%, a precision of 73.68% and a F1 score of 72.29. Compared with healthy control group, high myopia group had smaller vessel angle (31.12 \u00b1 2.27 vs. 32.33 \u00b1 2.14), smaller fractal dimension (Df) (1.383 \u00b1 0.060 vs. 1.424 \u00b1 0.038), smaller vessel density (2.57 \u00b1 0.96 vs. 3.92 \u00b1 0.93) and fewer vascular branches (201.87 \u00b1 75.92 vs. 271.31 \u00b1 67.37), all <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.001. With the increase of myopia maculopathy severity, vessel angle, Df, vessel density and vascular branches significantly decreased (all <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.001). There were significant correlations of these characteristics with AL, BCVA and age. Patients with mCNV tended to have larger vessel density (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.001) and more vascular branches (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> = 0.045).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>The RU-net and transfer learning technology used in this study has an accuracy of 98.24%, thus has good performance in quantitative analysis of vascular morphological characteristics in Ultra-wide field images. Along with the increase of myopic maculopathy severity and the elongation of eyeball, vessel angle, Df, vessel density and vascular branches decreased. 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