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ArticleScientific reports2022

Automated diagnosing primary open-angle glaucoma from fundus image by simulating human's grading with deep learning.

Mingquan Lin, Bojian Hou, Lei Liu, Mae Gordon, Michael Kass, Fei Wang, Sarah H Van Tassel, Yifan Peng

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Article in Scientific reports, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 40 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Mingquan LinDepartment of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Bojian HouDepartment of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Lei LiuInstitute for Public Health, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Mae GordonDepartment of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Michael KassDepartment of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Fei WangDepartment of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA. few2001@med.cornell.edu.
Sarah H Van TasselDepartment of Ophthalmology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA. sjh2006@med.cornell.edu.
Yifan PengDepartment of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA. yip4002@med.cornell.edu.
Cornell University · USWeill Cornell Medicine · USWashington University in St. Louis · US

Funding

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY CENTER VISION RESEARCHP30EY002687 · NEI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI Steven Bassnett · 1985 to 2026
$18.4M
OCULAR HYPERTENSION TREATMENT STUDY (OHTS)U10EY009307 · NEI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI KASS, MICHAEL A · 1992 to 2009
$14.8M
OHTS DATA COORDINATIONU10EY009341 · NEI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI GORDON, MAE O · 1992 to 2009
$12.3M
Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study 20-Year Follow-up: Coordinating Center GrantUG1EY025182 · NEI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI GORDON, MAE O · 2015 to 2019
$4.9M
Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study 20-Year Follow-up: Resource Center GrantUG1EY025183 · NEI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI KASS, MICHAEL A · 2015 to 2019
$4.0M
Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study 20-Year Follow-up: Clinical Center GrantUG1EY025181 · NEI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI GORDON, MAE O · 2015 to 2019
$3.4M
Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study 20-Year Follow-up: Chairman's GrantUG1EY025180 · NEI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI KASS, MICHAEL A · 2015 to 2019
$2.2M
A framework to enhance radiology structured report by invoking NLP and DL: Models and ApplicationsR00LM013001 · NLM · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI PENG, YIFAN · 2020 to 2022
$710k
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) is a leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide. Although deep learning methods have been proposed to diagnose POAG, it remains challenging to develop a robust and explainable algorithm to automatically facilitate the downstream diagnostic tasks. In this study, we present an automated classification algorithm, GlaucomaNet, to identify POAG using variable fundus photographs from different populations and settings. GlaucomaNet consists of two convolutional neural networks to simulate the human grading process: learning the discriminative features and fusing the features for grading. We evaluated GlaucomaNet on two datasets: Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study (OHTS) participants and the Large-scale Attention-based Glaucoma (LAG) dataset. GlaucomaNet achieved the highest AUC of 0.904 and 0.997 for POAG diagnosis on OHTS and LAG datasets. An ensemble of network architectures further improved diagnostic accuracy. By simulating the human grading process, GlaucomaNet demonstrated high accuracy with increased transparency in POAG diagnosis (comprehensiveness scores of 97% and 36%). These methods also address two well-known challenges in the field: the need for increased image data diversity and relying heavily on perimetry for POAG diagnosis. These results highlight the potential of deep learning to assist and enhance clinical POAG diagnosis. GlaucomaNet is publicly available on https://github.com/bionlplab/GlaucomaNet .

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Deep LearningGlaucomaGlaucoma, Open-AngleOcular HypertensionHumansIntraocular PressureVisual Field Tests

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PMID35982106
PMCPMC9388536
OpenAlexW4292676168

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