1. Developments in Non-Invasive Imaging to Guide Diagnosis and Treatment of Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy: A Systematic Review
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Ellie Bowditch, Hemal Mehta, and Andrew Chang
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Noninvasive imaging ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,genetic structures ,fundus imaging ,business.industry ,Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics ,Fundus photography ,R858-859.7 ,Diabetic retinopathy ,non-invasive imaging ,medicine.disease ,optical coherence tomography angiography ,artificial intelligence ,Clinical trial ,Patient safety ,Systematic review ,Optical coherence tomography ,medicine ,Observational study ,Radiology ,neovascularization ,business ,proliferative diabetic retinopathy - Abstract
Diagnosis and management of proliferative diabetic retinopathy are reliant upon retinal imaging. A systematic literature review of non-invasive imaging to guide diagnosis and treatment of proliferative diabetic retinopathy was performed. There is a trend of moving away from invasive (e.g., fundus fluorescein angiography) to non-invasive (e.g., wide-field optical coherence tomography (OCT), OCT angiography and colour fundus photography) imaging modalities to allow for more objective assessments that can be readily repeated in a time-efficient manner without compromising patient safety. Such quantitative assessments generating large amounts of data could benefit from artificial intelligence approaches to aid clinical decision making. These non-invasive imaging modalities continue to improve both in terms of the quality of image acquisition and progress in image interpretation. It is important that newer non-invasive imaging modalities are appropriately validated in large-scale prospective observational studies or randomised clinical trials.
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- 2021