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To address this issue, our study introduces a novel framework for quantifying biomarkers derived from optical coherence tomography (OCT) and optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) images in retinal diseases. We extract 452 feature parameters from five feature types, including local binary patterns (LBP) features of OCT and OCTA, capillary and large vessel features, and the foveal avascular zone (FAZ) feature. Leveraging this extensive feature set, we construct a classification model using a statistically relevant p value for feature selection to predict retinal diseases. We obtain a high accuracy of 0.912 and F1-score of 0.906 in the task of disease classification using this framework. We find that OCT and OCTA\u2019s LBP features provide a significant contribution of 77.12% to the significance of biomarkers in predicting retinal diseases, suggesting their potential as latent indicators for clinical diagnosis. 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