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Methods: Subjects underwent multimodal imaging, including FA, SD-OCT, and OCTA imaging, which were compared. In patients with unilateral nAMD, the contralateral eye with dry AMD (n = 39) was included to determine imaging modality sensitivity and specificity. Eyes with inaccurate automated segmentation from retinal distortion were manually resegmented. Results: The diagnostic performance for nAMD was 86% sensitivity and 100% specificity by OCT (AUC: 0.93; 95% CI 0.87\u20130.99; p &lt; 0.001); 82% sensitivity and 100% specificity by FA (AUC: 0.91; 95% CI 0.84\u20130.98; p &lt; 0.001); and 68% sensitivity and 100% specificity by automatically segmented OCTA (AUC: 0.84; 95% CI 0.76\u20130.93; p &lt; 0.001). OCTA diagnostic accuracy improved following manual resegmentation to 88% sensitivity and 100% specificity (AUC: 0.94; 95% CI 0.89\u20131.0; p &lt; 0.001). Diagnostic accuracy of OCT combined with manually resegmented OCTA (AUC: 1.0; 95% CI 1.0\u20131.0; p &lt; 0.001) was greater than that of OCT or FA combined (AUC: 0.96; 95% CI 0.92\u20131.0; p &lt; 0.001) but both were very accurate. Conclusions: Manual segmentation of the OCTA images can help identify CNV in eyes otherwise undetected by automated segmentation algorithms due to errors in segmentation of retinal layers. 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