New Perspectives on Ophthalmology and Health Care

Dear Colleagues,

The rapid maturation of multiple digital and telemedicine technologies in recent years, especially artificial intelligence (AI) and genomics, offered an unprecedented opportunity for health care to move into new era by applying digital innovations. Ophthalmology has dramatically thrived in these areas partly due to its many image-based investigations.

Since 2012, the accuracy of a convolutional neural network (CNN) has been improved by training and validating on vast amounts of data (e.g., image recognition and speech recognition). In terms of image processing, it has already been demonstrated that deep learning algorithms can be trained, using large medical datasets and without having to specify lesion-based features. The genomics has significantly changed the clinical practice. The use of genomic-based molecular diagnostics including prognostic genomic signatures and new-generation sequencing has become routine for clinical decisions. Studies supported that deep learning and genomics are ideal techniques that have the great potential to impact eye care significantly in targeted and effective screening, risk stratification, and treatment response.

This Special Issue of Healthcare seeks commentaries, original research, short reports, and reviews aiming to provide an updated panorama of achievements and challenges in eye health care applying AI and genomics, especially how the techniques benefit the patients with ocular diseases in real world, to uncover future aspect of research in ophthalmology.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Tang Fangyao
Guest Editor

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• artificial intelligence
• genomics
• ocular imaging
• biochemestry
• disease screening
• treatment response prediction
• cost-effectiveness improvement
• clinical utility