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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2020

Evaluating the Effect of Topical Atropine Use for Myopia Control on Intraocular Pressure by Using Machine Learning.

Tzu-En Wu, Hsin-An Chen, Mao-Jhen Jhou, Yen-Ning Chen, Ting-Jen Chang, Chi-Jie Lu

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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33 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 45 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Tzu-En WuDepartment of Ophthalmology, Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital, Taipei 11101, Taiwan.
Hsin-An ChenSchool of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan City 33302, Taiwan.
Mao-Jhen JhouGraduate Institute of Business Administration, Fu Jen Catholic University, New Taipei City 242062, Taiwan.
Yen-Ning ChenSchool of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan City 33302, Taiwan.
Ting-Jen ChangGraduate Institute of Business Administration, Fu Jen Catholic University, New Taipei City 242062, Taiwan.
Chi-Jie LuGraduate Institute of Business Administration, Fu Jen Catholic University, New Taipei City 242062, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0002-7911-2253
Fu Jen Catholic University · TWChang Gung University · TW

Funding

Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital 109-SKH-FJU-05
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Atropine is a common treatment used in children with myopia. However, it probably affects intraocular pressure (IOP) under some conditions. Our research aims to analyze clinical data by using machine learning models to evaluate the effect of 19 important factors on intraocular pressure (IOP) in children with myopia treated with topical atropine. The data is collected on 1545 eyes with spherical equivalent (SE) less than -10.0 diopters (D) treated with atropine for myopia control. Four machine learning models, namely multivariate adaptive regression splines (MARS), classification and regression tree (CART), random forest (RF), and eXtreme gradient boosting (XGBoost), were used. Linear regression (LR) was used for benchmarking. The 10-fold cross-validation method was used to estimate the performance of the five methods. The main outcome measure is that the 19 important factors associated with atropine use that may affect IOP are evaluated using machine learning models. Endpoint IOP at the last visit was set as the target variable. The results show that the top five significant variables, including baseline IOP, recruitment duration, age, total duration and previous cumulative dosage, were identified as most significant for evaluating the effect of atropine use for treating myopia on IOP. We can conclude that the use of machine learning methods to evaluate factors that affect IOP in children with myopia treated with topical atropine is promising. XGBoost is the best predictive model, and baseline IOP is the most accurate predictive factor for endpoint IOP among all machine learning approaches.

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abbreviations and acronymsintraocular pressure (IOP)machine learningmyopiatopical atropine

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PMID33396943
PMCPMC7794848
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