Reproducibility Among Residents in Evaluating Cup-disc Ratio Using Computer-aided Planimetry
Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society
; : 2816-2822, 2003.
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in Ko
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| ID: wpr-74774
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ABSTRACT
PURPOSE: To investigate the intra-observer agreement and inter-observer agreement among observers assessing optic disc cup-disc ratio of glaucoma patients. METHODS: Fifty stereoscopic optic disc photographs of patients with glaucoma were digitized and five ophthalmology residents drew optic disc and cup margin in a masked random fashion. It was performed twice on same photographs weekly under monoscopic and stereoscopic conditions. The agreement was estimated by Pearson correlation coefficient r. RESULTS: Intra-observer agreement for estimating linear cup-disc ratio (LCDR) under monoscopic (0.84) and stereoscopic conditions (0.86) were high and inter-observer agreement was also high under monoscopic (0.81) and stereoscopic conditions (0.83) showing more perfect agreement under stereoscopic condition. The observers estimated smaller cup-disc ratio when evaluating under stereoscopic condition than under monoscopic condition. CONCLUSIONS: Evaluating optic disc stereoscopically with computer-aided planimetry can be clinically useful when managing patients with glaucoma since it has a high reproducibility.
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WPRIM
Main subject:
Ophthalmology
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Glaucoma
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Humans
Language:
Ko
Journal:
Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society
Year:
2003
Document type:
Article