Table 1 AI-based structure-function in best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA).

From: AI-based structure-function correlation in age-related macular degeneration

Author/Ref.

Title

Disease

Technique

Prediction

Outcome measure

Outcome

Rohm et al. [27]

Predicting visual acuity by using machine learning in patients treated for neovascular age-related macular degeneration

Neovascular age-related macular degeneration

• Five different machine-learning algorithms

• Best performance by Lasso regression

• logMAR visual acuity after 3- and 12 months

• Mean Absolute Error (MAE)

• Root Mean Sqaured Error (RMSE)

• 3 Months = MAE: 0.11–014/RMSE: 0.18–0.2

• 12 Months = MAE: 0.16–0.2/RMSE: 0.2–0.22

Schmidt-Erfurth et al. [28]

Machine learning to analyze the prognostic value of current imaging biomarkers in neovascular age-related macular degeneration

Neovascular age-related macular degeneration

• Random forest

• BCVA at Baseline and 3 months follow-up

• Accuracy (R2)

R2 = 0.21 baseline

R2 = 0.70 3 months

Gerenda et al. [29]

Computational image analysis for prognosis determination in DME

Diabetic macular edema

• Random forest

• BCVA at Baseline and 1-year follow-up

• Accuracy (R2)

R2 = 0.21 baseline

R2 = 0.23 1 year

Aslam et al. [30]

Use of a neural net to model the impact of optical coherence tomography abnormalities on vision in age-related macular degeneration

Neovascular age-related macular degeneration

• Scaled conjugate gradient backpropagation (supervised learning)

• BCVA

• Root Mean Sqaured Error (RMSE)

• 8.21 Letters

Pfau et al. [31]

Artificial intelligence in ophthalmology: guideline for physicians for the critical evaluation of studies

Neovascular age-related macular degeneration

• Nested cross validation

• BCVA (LogMAR)

• MAE

• 0.142

Müller et al. [23]

Prediction of function in ABCA4-related retinopathy using ensemble machine learning

ABCA4-related Retinopathy

• Ensemble machine learning algorithms

• Three models

 (a) Retinal layer

 (b) All structural data

 (c) demographic data

• BCVA

• Divided into four categories from no to severe impairment

• Area under the curve (ROC)

(a) 88.64–92.25%

(b) 90.23–93.68%

(c) 87.26–91.44%

Sumaroka et al. [45]

Foveal therapy in blue cone monochromacy: predictions of visual potential from artificial intelligence

Blue Cone Monochromacy

• Random forest

 (a) Layer thickness

 (b) Reflectivity

• BCVA

• Root mean squared error (RMSE)

(a) 0.159

(b) 0.167