Changes of retinal ganglion cell–inner plexiform layer thickness and visual acuity in patients with diabetic macular edema treated with Aflibercept by Mouna M. Alsaad, Amin B. Shehadeh, Iyman M. Alsaad, Khalid A. Alubous, Jehad S. Meqbil, Mohammed Z. Qablawi, Saif Aldeen S. AIRyalat, Rawan A. Elubous

“…Moreover, a statistically significant association was found between the thickness reduction of the GC–IPL in the central macular area and the best-corrected visual acuity (r=0.9, P=0.005, Pearson coefficient=0.26). …”
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Convolutional networks can model the functional modulation of the MEG responses associated with feed-forward processes during visual word recognition by Marijn van Vliet, Oona Rinkinen, Takao Shimizu, Anni-Mari Niskanen, Barry Devereux, Riitta Salmelin

“…Through a few alterations to make the network more biologically plausible, we found an CNN architecture that can correctly simulate the behavior of three prominent responses, namely the type I (early visual response), type II (the ‘letter string’ response), and the N400m. …”
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Combined diffusion and perfusion index maps from simplified intravoxel incoherent motion imaging enable visual assessment of breast lesions by Petra Mürtz, Alois M. Sprinkart, Wolfgang Block, Julian A. Luetkens, Ulrike Attenberger, Claus C. Pieper

“…A lesion was rated as “malignant”, if a red hot spot was found within translucent hyperintensity on b800, otherwise as “benign”. …”
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COPD-Lower Respiratory Tract Infection Visual Analogue Score (c-LRTI-VAS) validation in stable and exacerbated patients with COPD by Thys van der Molen, Tjip S van der Werf, Hendrik Johannes Prins, Ruud Duijkers, Johannes M A Daniels, Wim Boersma

“…Background We developed the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)-Lower Respiratory Tract Infection-Visual Analogue Score (c-LRTI-VAS) in order to easily quantify symptoms during exacerbations in patients with COPD. …”
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Investigation of musculoskeletal disorders prevalence and the correlation of Visual Analog Scale with McGill Pain Questionnaire in dental students of Tehran universities by Sara Ebrahimi, Hossein Hatami, Ali Salehi Sahlabadi, Davod Panahi

“…Significant correlations were found between the Visual Pain Scale and the Sensory (r=0.543, p=0.011), Affective (r=0.549, p=0.020), and Evaluative (r=0.538, p=0.035) dimensions of the McGill Pain Questionnaire. …”
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Impact of spectacle use on academic performance among Vietnamese adolescents with reduced visual acuity and myopia: A school-based study. by Hoang Thuy Linh Nguyen, Xuan Minh Tri Tran, Keiko Nakamura, Kaoruko Seino, Yuri Tashiro, Ayano Miyashita, Tae Igarashi-Yokoi, Van Thang Vo, Kyoko Ohno-Matsui

“…Timely correction of refractive errors can significantly improve visual function and daily life. This study examined the impact of spectacle use on the academic performance of schoolchildren with reduced visual acuity (VA) and myopia.…”
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Estimating the Impact of Aging on Visual Function Using Useful Field of View (UFOV) with a Focus on the Population of Gangwon-do in Korea by Sang-Bin Na, Seong-Youl Choi, Da-Bin Jeon, Soo-Jin Moon, Jin-Keun Kim

“…Results: Findings after analyzing UFOV subtest differences by age group revealed significant differences in the visual function index of the young, later-middle-aged, and elderly in all three tests, and the difference between the later-middle-aged and old groups was only found in divided attention. …”
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Boosting forward connectivity between primary visual and body selective cortex reduces interference between sex and emotion judgements of bodies by Marco Gandolfo, Giulia D'Argenio, Paul E. Downing, Cosimo Urgesi

“…This asymmetric interaction between sex and emotion may arise because of bottom-up visual processing, due to partially shared visual features used for both judgments, or because of top-down, categorical associations between sex and emotion categories. …”
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Self-reported visual function and in-depth swept-source optical coherence tomography features of cystoid macular edema in retinitis pigmentosa by Celso Costa, Carlos Nogueira, Mário Soares, Silvia Simão, Pedro Melo, Rufino Silva, Joaquim Murta, João Pedro Marques

“…CME does not seem to affect self-reported visual function in RP patients, and CS may not worsen visual function. …”
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Prevalence of visually significant cataract and cataract surgical coverage in Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Angus W Turner, Mark A Chia, Hessom Razavi, Marcel M Nejatian, Saiuj Bhat, Amy Kalantary, Joshua R Taylor

“…Most studies only reported the prevalence of cataract causing vision loss (visual acuity<6/12) or blindness (visual acuity<6/60), restricting our meta-analysis to these definitions.Results Cataract causing unilateral vision loss was common in both Indigenous and non-Indigenous adults (3.5% and 3.6%, p=0.891). …”
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Seasonal variations in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity among children and adolescents with visual impairment during different segments of the school day by Li Dou, Huawei Chen, Yemao Xia, Enjie Lu

“…Background and objectiveThe seasonal variation in physical activity (PA) among children and adolescents with visual impairment (VI) is a significant public health concern, as they often experience unique barriers to engaging in regular PA. …”
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Characterisation of coastal reef fish assemblages across an estuarine-urbanisation gradient using underwater visual census and environmental DNA metabarcoding by Yu-De Pei, Joseph Heard, Wenqian Xu, Shara K.K. Leung, Charmaine C.M. Yung, Alex S.J. Wyatt

“…Nevertheless, we recorded 17 % of the known fish diversity and provided a comprehensive picture of patterns in fish diversity across the gradient, despite limited sampling effort. Visual estimates of fish generic richness were reduced by 1.6- to 3-fold under the highly turbid estuarine conditions found around Lantau compared to other regions. …”
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Oral Antithrombotic Medication Is Associated with Improved Visual Outcomes in Eyes with Submacular Hemorrhage from Wet Age-Related Macular Degeneration by Hemal P. Patel, MD, Cason B. Robbins, MD, Jamie J. Karl, MD, Peter Weng, MD, PhD, Lejla Vajzovic, MD, FASRS, Sharon Fekrat, MD, FASRS

“…Financial Disclosure(s): Proprietary or commercial disclosure may be found in the Footnotes and Disclosures at the end of this article.…”
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Racial disparities in diabetes care and outcomes for people with visual impairment: a descriptive analysis of the TriNetX research network by Charisse Madlock-Brown, Austin Lee, Jaime Seltzer, Anthony Solomonides, Nisha Mathews, Jimmy Phuong, Nicole Weiskopf, William G. Adams, Harold Lehmann, Juan Espinoza

“…White individuals without visual impairments were less likely to receive an A1C test or a GFR test, while African American individuals with visual impairment were more likely to get both. …”
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OCT-Defined Atrophic Age-Related Macular Degeneration Changes Associated with Deep Visual Sensitivity Losses: A Multicenter Study by Zhichao Wu, BAppSc(Optom), PhD, Barbara A. Blodi, MD, Frank G. Holz, MD, Glenn J. Jaffe, MD, Sandra Liakopoulos, MD, Srinivas R. Sadda, MD, Steffen Schmitz-Valckenberg, MD, Mari Bonse, BSc, Tyler Brown, COA, John Choong, BS, Bailey Clifton, COA, Giulia Corradetti, MD, Lauren A.B. Hodgson, MPH, Anna M. Lentzsch, MD, Alireza Mahmoudi, MD, Jeong W. Pak, PhD, Marlene Saßmannshausen, MD, Cindy Skalak, RN, COT, Leon von der Emde, MD, Jordan Winkler, BSc, Robyn H. Guymer, MBBS, PhD

“…Purpose: To identify combination(s) of OCT changes that define atrophic age-related macular degeneration (AMD) lesions associated with repeatable deep visual sensitivity defects. Design: Reader study. …”
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Rapid Visualization of Human Tumor Xenografts through Optical Imaging with a Near-Infrared Fluorescent Anti–Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Nanobody by Sabrina Oliveira, Guus A.M.S. van Dongen, Marijke Stigter-van Walsum, Rob C. Roovers, Jord C. Stam, Willem Mali, Paul J. van Diest, Paul M.P. van Bergen en Henegouwen

“…Given that overexpression of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is found in many types of human epithelial cancers, noninvasive molecular imaging of this receptor is of great interest. …”
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Occlusion Outcomes in Unilateral Amblyopia Types: A Longitudinal and Interventional Study in Children from the Marrakech-Safi Region by Mustapha Jaouhari, Chaimae El Harrak, Farida Bentayeb, Youssef El Merabet

“…No significant differences were found between the improvement in visual acuity during the eight control visits and the types of amblyopia (r = 0.174, p = 0.182). …”
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Low cost image-based modeling techniques for archaeological heritage digitalization: more than just a good tool for 3d visualization? by Mariateresa Galizia, Cettina Santagati

“…This study shows the first results of a research aimed at catching the potentiality of a series of low cost, free and open source tools (such as ARC3D, 123D Catch, Hypr3D). These tools are founded on the SfM (Structure from Motion) techniques and they are able to realize automatically image-based models starting from simple sequences of pictures data sets. …”
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Research Hotspot and Trend Analysis of Earth-Rockfill Dam Stability Based on Knowledge Map by WANG Luoxi, HAN Peifeng, LI Yan'ang, YANG Guocheng, QIU Hongzhi

“…In order to systematically summarize the current status and hotspots of research on earth-rockfill dam stability and analyze the future development trend of earth-rockfill dam stability, this paper sorted out the factors of earth-rockfill dam instability found by Chinese and foreign scholars and carried out a comparative analysis. …”
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Impact of fractional and integer order derivatives on the (4+1)-dimensional fractional Davey–Stewartson–Kadomtsev–Petviashvili equation by Adil Jhangeer, Haiqa Ehsan, Muhammad Bilal Riaz, Abdallah M. Talafha

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