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Schlosser T, Beuth F, Meyer T, Kumar AS, Stolze G, Furashova O, Engelmann K, Kowerko D. Visual acuity prediction on real-life patient data using a machine learning based multistage system. Sci Rep 2024; 14:5532. [PMID: 38448469 PMCID: PMC10917755 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-54482-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2023] [Accepted: 02/12/2024] [Indexed: 03/08/2024] Open
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In ophthalmology, intravitreal operative medication therapy (IVOM) is a widespread treatment for diseases related to the age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the diabetic macular edema, as well as the retinal vein occlusion. However, in real-world settings, patients often suffer from loss of vision on time scales of years despite therapy, whereas the prediction of the visual acuity (VA) and the earliest possible detection of deterioration under real-life conditions is challenging due to heterogeneous and incomplete data. In this contribution, we present a workflow for the development of a research-compatible data corpus fusing different IT systems of the department of ophthalmology of a German maximum care hospital. The extensive data corpus allows predictive statements of the expected progression of a patient and his or her VA in each of the three diseases. For the disease AMD, we found out a significant deterioration of the visual acuity over time. Within our proposed multistage system, we subsequently classify the VA progression into the three groups of therapy "winners", "stabilizers", and "losers" (WSL classification scheme). Our OCT biomarker classification using an ensemble of deep neural networks results in a classification accuracy (F1-score) of over 98%, enabling us to complete incomplete OCT documentations while allowing us to exploit them for a more precise VA modelling process. Our VA prediction requires at least four VA examinations and optionally OCT biomarkers from the same time period to predict the VA progression within a forecasted time frame, whereas our prediction is currently restricted to IVOM/no therapy. We achieve a final prediction accuracy of 69% in macro average F1-score, while being in the same range as the ophthalmologists with 57.8 and 50 ± 10.7 % F1-score.
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- Tobias Schlosser
- Junior Professorship of Media Computing, Chemnitz University of Technology, 09107, Chemnitz, Germany.
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- Junior Professorship of Media Computing, Chemnitz University of Technology, 09107, Chemnitz, Germany
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- Junior Professorship of Media Computing, Chemnitz University of Technology, 09107, Chemnitz, Germany
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- Junior Professorship of Media Computing, Chemnitz University of Technology, 09107, Chemnitz, Germany
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Klinikum Chemnitz gGmbH, 09116, Chemnitz, Germany
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Klinikum Chemnitz gGmbH, 09116, Chemnitz, Germany
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Klinikum Chemnitz gGmbH, 09116, Chemnitz, Germany
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- Junior Professorship of Media Computing, Chemnitz University of Technology, 09107, Chemnitz, Germany.
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Jalamangala Shivananjaiah SK, Kumari S, Majid I, Wang SY. Predicting near-term glaucoma progression: An artificial intelligence approach using clinical free-text notes and data from electronic health records. Front Med (Lausanne) 2023; 10:1157016. [PMID: 37122330 PMCID: PMC10133544 DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2023.1157016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2023] [Accepted: 02/15/2023] [Indexed: 05/02/2023] Open
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Purpose The purpose of this study was to develop a model to predict whether or not glaucoma will progress to the point of requiring surgery within the following year, using data from electronic health records (EHRs), including both structured data and free-text progress notes. Methods A cohort of adult glaucoma patients was identified from the EHR at Stanford University between 2008 and 2020, with data including free-text clinical notes, demographics, diagnosis codes, prior surgeries, and clinical information, including intraocular pressure, visual acuity, and central corneal thickness. Words from patients' notes were mapped to ophthalmology domain-specific neural word embeddings. Word embeddings and structured clinical data were combined as inputs to deep learning models to predict whether a patient would undergo glaucoma surgery in the following 12 months using the previous 4-12 months of clinical data. We also evaluated models using only structured data inputs (regression-, tree-, and deep-learning-based models) and models using only text inputs. Results Of the 3,469 glaucoma patients included in our cohort, 26% underwent surgery. The baseline penalized logistic regression model achieved an area under the receiver operating curve (AUC) of 0.873 and F1 score of 0.750, compared with the best tree-based model (random forest, AUC 0.876; F1 0.746), the deep learning structured features model (AUC 0.885; F1 0.757), the deep learning clinical free-text features model (AUC 0.767; F1 0.536), and the deep learning model with both the structured clinical features and free-text features (AUC 0.899; F1 0.745). Discussion Fusion models combining text and EHR structured data successfully and accurately predicted glaucoma progression to surgery. Future research incorporating imaging data could further optimize this predictive approach and be translated into clinical decision support tools.
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Byers Eye Institute, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, United States
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Thakur S, Dinh LL, Lavanya R, Quek TC, Liu Y, Cheng CY. Use of artificial intelligence in forecasting glaucoma progression. Taiwan J Ophthalmol 2023; 13:168-183. [PMID: 37484617 PMCID: PMC10361424 DOI: 10.4103/tjo.tjo-d-23-00022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2023] [Accepted: 03/03/2023] [Indexed: 07/25/2023] Open
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Artificial intelligence (AI) has been widely used in ophthalmology for disease detection and monitoring progression. For glaucoma research, AI has been used to understand progression patterns and forecast disease trajectory based on analysis of clinical and imaging data. Techniques such as machine learning, natural language processing, and deep learning have been employed for this purpose. The results from studies using AI for forecasting glaucoma progression however vary considerably due to dataset constraints, lack of a standard progression definition and differences in methodology and approach. While glaucoma detection and screening have been the focus of most research that has been published in the last few years, in this narrative review we focus on studies that specifically address glaucoma progression. We also summarize the current evidence, highlight studies that have translational potential, and provide suggestions on how future research that addresses glaucoma progression can be improved.
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- Sahil Thakur
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore
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- Institute of High Performance Computing, The Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore
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- Institute of High Performance Computing, The Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore
- Department of Ophthalmology, Centre for Innovation and Precision Eye Health, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program (Eye ACP), Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
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Asudani DS, Nagwani NK, Singh P. Impact of word embedding models on text analytics in deep learning environment: a review. Artif Intell Rev 2023; 56:1-81. [PMID: 36844886 PMCID: PMC9944441 DOI: 10.1007/s10462-023-10419-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 02/01/2023] [Indexed: 02/25/2023]
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The selection of word embedding and deep learning models for better outcomes is vital. Word embeddings are an n-dimensional distributed representation of a text that attempts to capture the meanings of the words. Deep learning models utilize multiple computing layers to learn hierarchical representations of data. The word embedding technique represented by deep learning has received much attention. It is used in various natural language processing (NLP) applications, such as text classification, sentiment analysis, named entity recognition, topic modeling, etc. This paper reviews the representative methods of the most prominent word embedding and deep learning models. It presents an overview of recent research trends in NLP and a detailed understanding of how to use these models to achieve efficient results on text analytics tasks. The review summarizes, contrasts, and compares numerous word embedding and deep learning models and includes a list of prominent datasets, tools, APIs, and popular publications. A reference for selecting a suitable word embedding and deep learning approach is presented based on a comparative analysis of different techniques to perform text analytics tasks. This paper can serve as a quick reference for learning the basics, benefits, and challenges of various word representation approaches and deep learning models, with their application to text analytics and a future outlook on research. It can be concluded from the findings of this study that domain-specific word embedding and the long short term memory model can be employed to improve overall text analytics task performance.
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- Deepak Suresh Asudani
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Raipur, Chhattisgarh India
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Raipur, Chhattisgarh India
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Raipur, Chhattisgarh India
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Chen JS, Baxter SL. Applications of natural language processing in ophthalmology: present and future. Front Med (Lausanne) 2022; 9:906554. [PMID: 36004369 PMCID: PMC9393550 DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2022.906554] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2022] [Accepted: 05/31/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Advances in technology, including novel ophthalmic imaging devices and adoption of the electronic health record (EHR), have resulted in significantly increased data available for both clinical use and research in ophthalmology. While artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms have the potential to utilize these data to transform clinical care, current applications of AI in ophthalmology have focused mostly on image-based deep learning. Unstructured free-text in the EHR represents a tremendous amount of underutilized data in big data analyses and predictive AI. Natural language processing (NLP) is a type of AI involved in processing human language that can be used to develop automated algorithms using these vast quantities of available text data. The purpose of this review was to introduce ophthalmologists to NLP by (1) reviewing current applications of NLP in ophthalmology and (2) exploring potential applications of NLP. We reviewed current literature published in Pubmed and Google Scholar for articles related to NLP and ophthalmology, and used ancestor search to expand our references. Overall, we found 19 published studies of NLP in ophthalmology. The majority of these publications (16) focused on extracting specific text such as visual acuity from free-text notes for the purposes of quantitative analysis. Other applications included: domain embedding, predictive modeling, and topic modeling. Future ophthalmic applications of NLP may also focus on developing search engines for data within free-text notes, cleaning notes, automated question-answering, and translating ophthalmology notes for other specialties or for patients, especially with a growing interest in open notes. As medicine becomes more data-oriented, NLP offers increasing opportunities to augment our ability to harness free-text data and drive innovations in healthcare delivery and treatment of ophthalmic conditions.
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- Jimmy S. Chen
- Division of Ophthalmology Informatics and Data Science, Viterbi Family Department of Ophthalmology and Shiley Eye Institute, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
- Health Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
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- Division of Ophthalmology Informatics and Data Science, Viterbi Family Department of Ophthalmology and Shiley Eye Institute, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
- Health Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
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Wang SY, Tseng B, Hernandez-Boussard T. Deep Learning Approaches for Predicting Glaucoma Progression Using Electronic Health Records and Natural Language Processing. OPHTHALMOLOGY SCIENCE 2022; 2:100127. [PMID: 36249690 PMCID: PMC9559076 DOI: 10.1016/j.xops.2022.100127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2021] [Revised: 01/19/2022] [Accepted: 02/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Purpose Advances in artificial intelligence have produced a few predictive models in glaucoma, including a logistic regression model predicting glaucoma progression to surgery. However, uncertainty exists regarding how to integrate the wealth of information in free-text clinical notes. The purpose of this study was to predict glaucoma progression requiring surgery using deep learning (DL) approaches on data from electronic health records (EHRs), including features from structured clinical data and from natural language processing of clinical free-text notes. Design Development of DL predictive model in an observational cohort. Participants Adult patients with glaucoma at a single center treated from 2008 through 2020. Methods Ophthalmology clinical notes of patients with glaucoma were identified from EHRs. Available structured data included patient demographic information, diagnosis codes, prior surgeries, and clinical information including intraocular pressure, visual acuity, and central corneal thickness. In addition, words from patients’ first 120 days of notes were mapped to ophthalmology domain-specific neural word embeddings trained on PubMed ophthalmology abstracts. Word embeddings and structured clinical data were used as inputs to DL models to predict subsequent glaucoma surgery. Main Outcome Measures Evaluation metrics included area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) and F1 score, the harmonic mean of positive predictive value, and sensitivity on a held-out test set. Results Seven hundred forty-eight of 4512 patients with glaucoma underwent surgery. The model that incorporated both structured clinical features as well as input features from clinical notes achieved an AUC of 73% and F1 of 40%, compared with only structured clinical features, (AUC, 66%; F1, 34%) and only clinical free-text features (AUC, 70%; F1, 42%). All models outperformed predictions from a glaucoma specialist’s review of clinical notes (F1, 29.5%). Conclusions We can successfully predict which patients with glaucoma will need surgery using DL models on EHRs unstructured text. Models incorporating free-text data outperformed those using only structured inputs. Future predictive models using EHRs should make use of information from within clinical free-text notes to improve predictive performance. Additional research is needed to investigate optimal methods of incorporating imaging data into future predictive models as well.
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Lim JS, Hong M, Lam WST, Zhang Z, Teo ZL, Liu Y, Ng WY, Foo LL, Ting DSW. Novel technical and privacy-preserving technology for artificial intelligence in ophthalmology. Curr Opin Ophthalmol 2022; 33:174-187. [PMID: 35266894 DOI: 10.1097/icu.0000000000000846] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW The application of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine and ophthalmology has experienced exponential breakthroughs in recent years in diagnosis, prognosis, and aiding clinical decision-making. The use of digital data has also heralded the need for privacy-preserving technology to protect patient confidentiality and to guard against threats such as adversarial attacks. Hence, this review aims to outline novel AI-based systems for ophthalmology use, privacy-preserving measures, potential challenges, and future directions of each. RECENT FINDINGS Several key AI algorithms used to improve disease detection and outcomes include: Data-driven, imagedriven, natural language processing (NLP)-driven, genomics-driven, and multimodality algorithms. However, deep learning systems are susceptible to adversarial attacks, and use of data for training models is associated with privacy concerns. Several data protection methods address these concerns in the form of blockchain technology, federated learning, and generative adversarial networks. SUMMARY AI-applications have vast potential to meet many eyecare needs, consequently reducing burden on scarce healthcare resources. A pertinent challenge would be to maintain data privacy and confidentiality while supporting AI endeavors, where data protection methods would need to rapidly evolve with AI technology needs. Ultimately, for AI to succeed in medicine and ophthalmology, a balance would need to be found between innovation and privacy.
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- Jane S Lim
- Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore Eye Research Institute
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- Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore
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- Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University
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- Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore Eye Research Institute
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- National University of Singapore, DukeNUS Medical School, Singapore
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- Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore Eye Research Institute
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- Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore Eye Research Institute
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- Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore Eye Research Institute
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Hu W, Wang SY. Predicting Glaucoma Progression Requiring Surgery Using Clinical Free-Text Notes and Transfer Learning With Transformers. Transl Vis Sci Technol 2022; 11:37. [PMID: 35353148 PMCID: PMC8976929 DOI: 10.1167/tvst.11.3.37] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Purpose We evaluated the use of massive transformer-based language models to predict glaucoma progression requiring surgery using ophthalmology clinical notes from electronic health records (EHRs). Methods Ophthalmology clinical notes for 4512 glaucoma patients at a single center from 2008 to 2020 were identified from the EHRs. Four different pre-trained Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT)-based models were fine-tuned on ophthalmology clinical notes from the patients' first 120 days of follow-up for the task of predicting which patients would require glaucoma surgery. Models were evaluated with standard metrics, including area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC) and F1 score. Results Of the patients, 748 progressed to require glaucoma surgery (16.6%). The original BERT model had the highest AUROC (73.4%; F1 = 45.0%) for identifying these patients, followed by RoBERTa, with an AUROC of 72.4% (F1 = 44.7%); DistilBERT, with an AUROC of 70.2% (F1 = 42.5%); and BioBERT, with an AUROC of 70.1% (F1 = 41.7%). All models had higher F1 scores than an ophthalmologist's review of clinical notes (F1 = 29.9%). Conclusions Using transfer learning with massively pre-trained BERT-based models is a natural language processing approach that can access the wealth of clinical information stored within ophthalmology clinical notes to predict the progression of glaucoma. Future work to improve model performance can focus on integrating structured or imaging data or further tailoring the BERT models to ophthalmology domain-specific text. Translational Relevance Predictive models can provide the basis for clinical decision support tools to aid clinicians in identifying high- or low-risk patients to maximally tailor glaucoma treatments.
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- Wendeng Hu
- Byers Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, USA
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- Byers Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, USA
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