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ArticleJournal of ophthalmology2019

Severity Classification of Conjunctival Hyperaemia by Deep Neural Network Ensembles.

Hiroki Masumoto, Hitoshi Tabuchi, Tsuyoshi Yoneda, Shunsuke Nakakura, Hideharu Ohsugi, Tamaki Sumi, Atsuki Fukushima

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Article in Journal of ophthalmology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04609345 (Prevalence of Ocular Surface Disease in Malaysian Glaucoma Patients), which is not on this map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT04609345 unknown statusnot on this mapstarted 2020, after this paper: background citation

Prevalence of Ocular Surface Disease in Malaysian Glaucoma Patients

TypeobservationalSponsorSanten Pharma Malaysia Sdn BhdRan2020 to 2021Enrolled400ConditionsPrimary Open-angle Glaucoma, Primary Angle-Closure Glaucoma, Pseudoexfoliation Glaucoma, Pigment Dispersion Glaucoma
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Hiroki MasumotoDepartment of Ophthalmology, Tsukazaki Hospital, Himeji, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-6030-7261
Hitoshi TabuchiDepartment of Ophthalmology, Tsukazaki Hospital, Himeji, Japan.
Tsuyoshi YonedaDepartment of Sensory Science, Kawasaki University of Medical Welfare, Kurashiki, Japan.
Shunsuke NakakuraDepartment of Ophthalmology, Tsukazaki Hospital, Himeji, Japan.
Hideharu OhsugiDepartment of Ophthalmology, Tsukazaki Hospital, Himeji, Japan.
Tamaki SumiDepartment of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Kochi Medical School, Nankoku, Japan.
Atsuki FukushimaDepartment of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Kochi Medical School, Nankoku, Japan.
Kochi Medical School Hospital · JPKawasaki University of Medical Welfare · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Conjunctival hyperaemia is a common clinical ophthalmological finding and can be a symptom of various ocular disorders. Although several severity classification criteria have been proposed, none include objective severity criteria. Neural networks and deep learning have been utilised in ophthalmology, but not for the purpose of classifying the severity of conjunctival hyperaemia objectively. To develop a conjunctival hyperaemia grading software, we used 3700 images as the training data and 923 images as the validation test data. We trained the nine neural network models and validated the performance of these networks. We finally chose the best combination of these networks. The DenseNet201 model was the best individual model. The combination of the DenseNet201, DenseNet121, VGG19, and ResNet50 were the best model. The correlation between the multimodel responses, and the vessel-area occupied was 0.737 (

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