This Week in Ophthalmology: Week of August 25, 2024
This Week in Ophthalmology is a video series highlighting some of the top articles featured on the Ophthalmology Times website.
Welcome to the latest edition of This Week in Ophthalmology, a video series highlighting some of the top articles featured on the Ophthalmology Times website.
David Hutton recently talked to Dr. John Sheppard, who made a presentation at the recent World Ophthalmology Congress in Vancouver, detailing perfluorohexyloctane ophthalmic solution in dry eye disease.
Watch Now: Perfluorohexyloctane ophthalmic solution in the treatment of dry eye
A team of Australian researchers has found that the use and potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in eyecare could be limited by its access to top-notch clinical registries.
The researchers, from the Save Sight Institute, The University of Sydney and Sydney Eye Hospital, published their study, titled Artificial Intelligence and Ophthalmic Clinical Registries, in The American Journal of Ophthalmology.
According to the study, the latest advances in AI show a promising solution to increasing clinical demand and ever limited health resources. AI models demonstrate some power, but they rely on large amounts of representative training data to output meaningful predictions in the clinical environment. The researchers pointed out that clinical registries represent a promising source of large volume real-world data which could be tapped to train more accurate and widely applicable AI models.
Read More: Study shows AI may be lacking registry data
Researchers at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, have teamed up with Polaris Dawn, the first of the Polaris Program’s 3 human spaceflight missions, to better understand how the eye changes many astronauts experience during spaceflight can ultimately leave them with multiple symptoms once they return to Earth — from a need for new eyeglasses to significant vision loss.
The Polaris Program is a first-of-its-kind effort to advance human spaceflight capabilities while continuing to raise funds and awareness for important causes on Earth.
The next steps for the research include developing and fine-tuning countermeasures that would decrease fluid volumes in the head during spaceflight.
Read More: Research team works to help prevent vision loss linked with space travel
Held on the second Thursday in October each year, World Sight Day focuses on the importance of prioritizing eye health for all.
The day is coordinated by the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) under the “Love Your Eyes” campaign banner of World Sight Day 2024 and is putting children at the center of the campaign.1 It is being held on October 10.
As part of the campaign, Love Your Eyes Global Partners, IAPB, and IAPB members are calling on parents, caregivers, and schools to pledge an eye test on behalf of a young person. A child’s pledge to #LoveYourEyes will make an impact on the individual, as well as raise awareness of the 450 million children globally who have a sight condition that needs treatment.
