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The manual analysis of retinal OCT images is a time-consuming task; therefore, the development of automatic image analysis methods is important for both research and clinical applications. In recent years, deep learning methods have emerged as an alternative method to perform this segmentation task. A large number of the proposed segmentation methods in the literature focus on the use of encoder\u2013decoder architectures, such as U-Net, while other architectural modalities have not received as much attention. In this study, the application of an instance segmentation method based on region proposal architecture, called the Mask R-CNN, is explored in depth in the context of retinal OCT image segmentation. The importance of adequate hyper-parameter selection is examined, and the performance is compared with commonly used techniques. The Mask R-CNN provides a suitable method for the segmentation of OCT images with low segmentation boundary errors and high Dice coefficients, with segmentation performance comparable with the commonly used U-Net method. 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