Tien Yin Wong

Research summary

Global eye-disease epidemiology and one deep-learning paper form this set. Systematic review and meta-analysis of myopia and high-myopia prevalence using data published since 1995 produced 2000–2050 temporal projections by 5-year age groups and rural/urban populations across countries, standardized by definition [1]. A pre-2013 systematic review and meta-analysis of population-based age-related macular degeneration studies (using retinal photographs and standardized grading) integrated worldwide prevalence and projected disease burden to 2020 and 2040 [2]. A pooled individual-participant analysis of population-based diabetes/diabetic-retinopathy studies estimated DR, proliferative DR, diabetic macular edema, and vision-threatening DR prevalence with major systemic risk factors among people with diabetes worldwide [3]. A 1980–2014 systematic review and meta-analysis of population-based causes of vision impairment and blindness modeled cause-specific contributions from 1990–2015 and forecast to 2020, disaggregated by cause [4]. A separate Lancet Global Health paper modeled magnitude, temporal trends, and projections of the global prevalence of blindness and distance and near vision impairment with hierarchical fits across 1980–2015 datasets, stratified by age, country, sex, and presenting visual acuity bands (mild: worse than 6/12 to 6/18; moderate-to-severe: worse than 6/18 to 3/60) [6]. A JAMA paper trained and evaluated a deep learning system on 494,661 retinal images (DR training set of 76,370, glaucoma 125,189, AMD 72,610) for referable DR, vision-threatening DR, possible glaucoma, and AMD detection across community and clinic-based multiethnic populations with diabetes [5]. The works together build the epidemiological case base that defines global eye-care priorities and the AI-screening tools that act on them.

Recent publications

1. Global Prevalence of Glaucoma and Projections of Glaucoma Burden through 20402014 · Ophthalmology · 6834 citationsDOI
2. Global Prevalence of Myopia and High Myopia and Temporal Trends from 2000 through 20502016 · Ophthalmology · 5285 citationsDOI
3. Global prevalence of age-related macular degeneration and disease burden projection for 2020 and 2040: a systematic review and meta-analysis2014 · The Lancet Global Health · 5170 citationsDOI
4. Global Prevalence and Major Risk Factors of Diabetic Retinopathy2012 · Diabetes Care · 4839 citationsDOI
5. Global causes of blindness and distance vision impairment 1990–2020: a systematic review and meta-analysis2017 · The Lancet Global Health · 3381 citationsDOI
6. Diabetic retinopathy2010 · The Lancet · 3050 citationsDOI
7. Development and Validation of a Deep Learning System for Diabetic Retinopathy and Related Eye Diseases Using Retinal Images From Multiethnic Populations With Diabetes2017 · JAMA · 2268 citationsDOI
8. Magnitude, temporal trends, and projections of the global prevalence of blindness and distance and near vision impairment: a systematic review and meta-analysis2017 · The Lancet Global Health · 2209 citationsDOI
9. Global Prevalence of Diabetic Retinopathy and Projection of Burden through 20452021 · Ophthalmology · 2100 citationsDOI
10. Age-related macular degeneration2012 · The Lancet · 1708 citationsDOI

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• ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8448-1264
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