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Benefits of Integrating Telemedicine and Artificial Intelligence Into Outreach Eye Care: Stepwise Approach and Future Directions

open access: yesFrontiers in Medicine, 2022
Telemedicine has traditionally been applied within remote settings to overcome geographical barriers to healthcare access, providing an alternate means of connecting patients to specialist services.
Mark A. Chia, A. Turner
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Evidence for integrating eye health into primary health care in Africa: a health systems strengthening approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
BACKGROUND: The impact of unmet eye care needs in sub-Saharan Africa is compounded by barriers to accessing eye care, limited engagement with communities, a shortage of appropriately skilled health personnel, and inadequate support from health systems ...
Boateng Wiafe   +8 more
core   +1 more source

A Comprehensive Study of DCNN Algorithms-based Transfer Learning for Human Eye Cataract Detection

open access: yesInternational Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, 2023
— This study presents a comparative analysis of different deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) architectures, including VGG19, NASNet, ResNet50, and MobileNetV2, with and without data augmentation, for the automatic detection of cataracts in fundus ...
Omar Jilani Jidan   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

One-year Profile of Eye Diseases in Infants (PEDI) in secondary (rural) eye care centers in South India

open access: yesIndian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2021
Purpose: The aim of this study was to report the proportion and patterns of eye diseases observed among infants seen at two rural eye care centers in South India. Methods: A retrospective review of case records of infants seen between January 1, 2017 and
Mayank Jain   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

"Planning eye health services in Varamin district, Iran: a cross-sectional study". [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
BACKGROUND: A recent survey of avoidable blindness in Varamin District, Iran, identified moderately high levels of visual impairment (10%) and blindness (1.5%) in people >50 years.
Ahmadieh, Hamid   +5 more
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Improving eye care in residential aged care facilities using the Residential Ocular Care (ROC) model: study protocol for a multicentered, prospective, customized, and cluster randomized controlled trial in Australia

open access: yesTrials, 2018
Background Older adults in residential aged care facilities have unnecessarily high levels of vision impairment (VI) which are largely treatable or correctable.
Edith E. Holloway   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pattern of uveitis in a rural eye care hospital in Tamil Nadu

open access: yesTNOA Journal of Ophthalmic Science and Research, 2022
Aim: The aim of this study is to analyse the pattern of uveitis in a rural eye care hospital in Tamil Nadu. Understanding the shifting paradigm in uveitis, demographic differences in presentation, early diagnosis and treatment are very important in ...
A. Aparna   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Delivery of Bone Marrow-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells Improves Tear Production in a Mouse Model of Sjögren’s Syndrome

open access: yesStem Cells International, 2017
The purpose of the present study was to test the potential of mouse bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (BD-MSCs) in improving tear production in a mouse model of Sjögren’s syndrome dry eye and to investigate the underlying mechanisms involved ...
Hema S. Aluri   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Compliance with follow-up in patients with diabetic macular edema: Eye care center vs. diabetes care center

open access: yesIndian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2023
Purpose: The study was conducted to compare the compliance to intravitreal injection treatment and follow-up in patients with center-involving diabetic macular edema (CI-DME) and treatment outcomes between a tertiary eye care facility and a tertiary ...
Geetha Kumar   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Portable Eye Examination Kit : mobile phones can screen for eye disease in low-resource settings [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The Portable Eye Examination Kit (Peek) is being tested in field trials in Kenya, Mali, Malawi, Tanzania, Botswana, Madagascar, India, and the United Kingdom, and testing in more countries is planned in the future.
Giardini, Mario Ettore
core   +2 more sources

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