Evidence map›Paper›PMID 25505132›Full record

ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2015

Patterns of functional vision loss in glaucoma determined with archetypal analysis.

Tobias Elze, Louis R Pasquale, Lucy Q Shen, Teresa C Chen, Janey L Wiggs, Peter J Bex

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Article in Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 81 papers.

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81 citing papers in PubMed, 126 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Tobias ElzeSchepens Eye Research Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany tobias_elze@meei.harvard.edu.
Louis R PasqualeMassachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Lucy Q ShenMassachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
Teresa C ChenMassachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
Janey L WiggsMassachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
Peter J BexSchepens Eye Research Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
Harvard University · USMassachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary · USBrigham and Women's Hospital · USMax Planck Institute for Mathematics · DE

Funding

P30 Core Grant for Vision ResearchP30EY014104 · NEI · MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY · PI Eric A Pierce · 2002 to 2026
$15.1M
The NEIGHBORHOOD: POAG Heritable Overall Operational DatabaseR01EY022305 · NEI · MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY · PI WIGGS, JANEY L · 2012 to 2025
$7.9M
Psychophysical Correlates of Neurodegeneration in GlaucomaR01EY018664 · NEI · SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI BEX, PETER JOHN · 2009 to 2012
$1.9M
NEI NIH HHS P30 EY014104NEI NIH HHS R01 EY018664NEI NIH HHS R01 EY022305
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glaucoma is an optic neuropathy accompanied by vision loss which can be mapped by visual field (VF) testing revealing characteristic patterns related to the retinal nerve fibre layer anatomy. While detailed knowledge about these patterns is important to understand the anatomic and genetic aspects of glaucoma, current classification schemes are typically predominantly derived qualitatively. Here, we classify glaucomatous vision loss quantitatively by statistically learning prototypical patterns on the convex hull of the data space. In contrast to component-based approaches, this method emphasizes distinct aspects of the data and provides patterns that are easier to interpret for clinicians. Based on 13 231 reliable Humphrey VFs from a large clinical glaucoma practice, we identify an optimal solution with 17 glaucomatous vision loss prototypes which fit well with previously described qualitative patterns from a large clinical study. We illustrate relations of our patterns to retinal structure by a previously developed mathematical model. In contrast to the qualitative clinical approaches, our results can serve as a framework to quantify the various subtypes of glaucomatous visual field loss.

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BlindnessGlaucomaModels, BiologicalHumansRetinal Neuronsglaucomaretinal nerve fibre layervision loss

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PMID25505132
PMCPMC4305414
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