Eye specialists at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge have developed a high-tech tool that could change the way glaucoma patients are treated worldwide.
Ophthalmologists Dr Nikhil Jain, and former student Dr Arun Thirunavukarasu have come up with the Glaucoma Field Defect Classifier (GFDC), an application which exhibits perfect accuracy in classifying mild, moderate, and severe glaucomatous field defects.
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They presented the app at the first-ever Cambridge Eye Research Centre Symposium, and have already presented it at three other international conferences this year and been featured in an international peer-reviewed journal.
The app, developed with a multi-disciplinary team, is now freely hosted online for clinicians and researchers to use with glaucoma patients.
Glaucoma is the most frequent cause of irreversible blindness.
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