Medical Xpress August 5, 2024
Researchers at The University of Western Australia have designed a new method to extract data on a large scale to assess and track changes in people’s field of vision.
Dr. Siobhan Manners, from UWA’s School of Population and Global Health and the Western Australian Center for Road Safety Research, was lead author of the study published in Clinical & Experimental Ophthalmology.
Researchers collected data from more than 600,000 visual field tests from 92,000 individuals who attended an ophthalmologist or public hospital eye clinic in Western Australia between 1988 and 2022.
The data, which included patient demographics, sensitivity readings and test parameters, was then collated into a single dataset.
“This new single database set is highly representative of the population over...
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