PURPOSE: Microbial keratitis is an urgent condition in ophthalmology that requires prompt treatment. This study aimed to apply deep learning algorithms for rapidly discriminating between fungal keratitis (FK) and bacterial keratitis (BK).
Infectious keratitis (IK) represents the leading cause of corneal blindness worldwide, particularly in developing countries. A good outcome of IK is contingent upon timely and accurate diagnosis followed by appropriate interventions. Currently, IK is...
PURPOSE: The purpose of this article was to develop and validate a natural language processing (NLP) algorithm to extract qualitative descriptors of microbial keratitis (MK) from electronic health records.
Corneal opacities are important causes of blindness, and their major etiology is infectious keratitis. Slit-lamp examinations are commonly used to determine the causative pathogen; however, their diagnostic accuracy is low even for experienced ophtha...
International journal of medical informatics
Nov 1, 2021
BACKGROUND: This study aims to investigate how infectious keratitis depicted on slit-lamp and smartphone photographs can be reliably assessed using deep learning.
Keratitis is the main cause of corneal blindness worldwide. Most vision loss caused by keratitis can be avoidable via early detection and treatment. The diagnosis of keratitis often requires skilled ophthalmologists. However, the world is short of op...
PURPOSE: Infiltration of activated dendritic cells and inflammatory cells in cornea represents an important marker for defining corneal inflammation. Deep transfer learning has presented a promising potential and is gaining more importance in compute...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Jan 1, 2021
We propose a fully-automatic deep learning-based algorithm for segmentation of ocular structures and microbial keratitis (MK) biomarkers on slit-lamp photography (SLP) images. The dataset consisted of SLP images from 133 eyes with manual annotations ...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Apr 1, 2020
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Fungal keratitis is caused by inflammation of the cornea that results from infection by fungal organisms. The lack of an early effective diagnosis often results in serious complications even blindness. Confocal microscopy i...