Glaucoma app aids clinical decision making

An automated web application for classifying glaucoma field defects has been proposed for its improved accuracy, speed and fairness in clinical decision-making.

The web application was said to reduce time requirements for clinicians and could provide a more precise alternative to grading visual fields alongside some countries’ social service benefit criteria.

The two negatives assessed were that the Hodapp-Parish-Anderson criteria may overestimate or underestimate glaucomatous damage, and different visual field testing machines may display results in formats incompatible with the code.

However, these could be resolved through simple modifications to the published code, according to the study published in NPJ Digital Medicine journal.