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Investigating the clinical usefulness of definitions of progression with 10-2 visual field
  1. Shotaro Asano1,2,
  2. Hiroshi Murata1,
  3. Yuri Fujino3,4,
  4. Takehiro Yamashita5,
  5. Atsuya Miki6,7,
  6. Yoko Ikeda8,9,
  7. Kazuhiko Mori8,
  8. Masaki Tanito4,
  9. Ryo Asaoka1,3,10
  1. 1 Department of Ophthalmology, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan
  2. 2 Department of Ophthalmology, Asahi General Hospital, Asahi, Chiba, Japan
  3. 3 Department of Ophthalmology, Seirei Hamamatsu General Hospital, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan
  4. 4 Ophthalmology, Shimane University Faculty of Medicine Graduate School of Medicine, Izumo, Shimane, Japan
  5. 5 Ophthalmology, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medicine and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima, Kagoshima, Japan
  6. 6 Ophthalmology, Osaka Daigaku Daigakuin Igakukei Kenkyuka Igakubu, Suita, Osaka, Japan
  7. 7 Department of Innovative Visual Science, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan
  8. 8 Department of Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
  9. 9 Oike-Ganka Ikeda Clinic, Kyoto, Japan
  10. 10 Seirei Christopher University, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan
  1. Correspondence to Dr Ryo Asaoka, Department of Ophthalmology, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku 113-8655, Japan; ryoasa0120{at}mac.com

Abstract

Background/Aim To investigate the clinical validity of the Guided Progression Analysis definition (GPAD) and cluster-based definition (CBD) with the Humphrey Field Analyzer 10-2 test in diagnosing glaucomatous visual field (VF) progression, and to introduce a novel definition with optimised specificity by combining the ‘any-location’ and ‘cluster-based’ approaches (hybrid definition).

Methods 64 400 stable glaucomatous VFs were simulated from 664 pairs of 10-2 tests (10 sets × 10 VF series × 664 eyes; data set 1). Using these simulated VFs, the specificity to detect progression and the effects of changing the parameters (number of test locations or consecutive VF tests, and percentile cut-off values) were investigated. The hybrid definition was designed as the combination where the specificity was closest to 95.0%. Subsequently, another 5000 actual glaucomatous 10-2 tests from 500 eyes (10 VFs each) were collected (data set 2), and their accuracy (sensitivity, specificity and false positive rate) and the time needed to detect VF progression were evaluated.

Results The specificity values calculated using data set 1 with GPAD and CBD were 99.6% and 99.8%. Using data set 2, the hybrid definition had a higher sensitivity than GPAD and CBD, without detriment to the specificity or false positive rate. The hybrid definition also detected progression significantly earlier than GPAD and CBD (at 3.1 years vs 4.2 years and 4.1 years, respectively).

Conclusions GPAD and CBD had specificities of 99.6% and 99.8%, respectively. A novel hybrid definition (with a specificity of 95.5%) had higher sensitivity and enabled earlier detection of progression.

  • glaucoma
  • field of vision

Data availability statement

Data are available upon reasonable request.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bjophthalmol-2020-318188

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    • Contributors Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work: SA, HM and RA. Acquisition, analysis or interpretation of data for the work: SA, HM, YF, TY, AM, YI, KM, MT and RA. Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content: SA, HM and RA. Final approval of the version to be published: SA, HM, YF, TY, AM, YI, KM, MT and RA. Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved: SA, HM, YF, TY, AM, YI, KM, MT and RA.

    • Funding The study was supported by grants (nos. 20K18337, 20K09785, 19H01114, 18KK0253, and 20K09784) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan and The Translational Research program; Strategic Promotion for practical application of Innovative medical Technology (TR-SPRINT) from the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED), grant AIP acceleration research from the Japan Science and Technology Agency.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.

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