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Abstract #13050 Published in IGR 7-3

Assessment of optic disc cupping with digital fundus photographs

Constantinou M; Ferraro JG; Lamoureux EL; Taylor HR
American Journal of Ophthalmology 2005; 140: 529-31


PURPOSE: To determine the agreement between the assessment of retinal digital images by using an overlay transparency sheet and the Heidelberg retinal tomograph (HRT) in determining cup-disk ratios greater than 0.6. DESIGN: Diagnostic test comparison. METHODS: Computerized topographic and monoscopic digital images of the optic disk of 628 people aged 70 to 79 years were assessed. A grader (M.C.) defined the disk margin on HRT images, and the operation software computed the area cup-disk ratio. The same grader also determined whether the vertical cup-disk ratio on retinal images was greater than 0.6 by superimposing a transparency overlay sheet over the images. Findings of a second grader (J.G.F.) were used to establish reliability measures. RESULTS: The intragrader reliability for the overlay method and HRT was almost perfect (intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) = 0.96 and 0.99, respectively), whereas the intergrader reliability was good (ICC = 0.77 and 0.92, respectively). A perfect agreement was found on 28 (85%) of 33 eyes between the overlay and HRT methods in determining cup-disk ratios greater than 0.6. CONCLUSIONS: The overlay transparency method appears to be a reliable and promising alternative in determining cup-disk ratios greater than 0.6 in a community screening setting.

Dr. M. Constantinou, Centre for Eye Research Australia, University of Melbourne, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, 32 Gisborne Street, East Melbourne, Victoria 3002, Australia. mariosc@unimelb.edu.au


Classification:

2.14 Optic disc (Part of: 2 Anatomical structures in glaucoma)
6.8.2 Posterior segment (Part of: 6 Clinical examination methods > 6.8 Photography)



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