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Classification Criteria for Acute Posterior Multifocal Placoid Pigment Epitheliopathy

The Standardization Of Uveitis Nomenclature Sun Working Group, .; (2021) Classification Criteria for Acute Posterior Multifocal Placoid Pigment Epitheliopathy. American Journal of Ophthalmology , 228 pp. 174-181. 10.1016/j.ajo.2021.03.056. Green open access

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Abstract

Purpose: To determine classification criteria for acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy (APMPPE). / Design: Machine learning of cases with APMPPE and 8 other posterior uveitides. / Methods: Cases of posterior uveitides were collected in an informatics-designed preliminary database, and a final database was constructed of cases achieving supermajority agreement on diagnosis, using formal consensus techniques. Cases were split into a training set and a validation set. Machine learning using multinomial logistic regression was used on the training set to determine a parsimonious set of criteria that minimized the misclassification rate among the infectious posterior/panuveitides. The resulting criteria were evaluated on the validation set. / Results: One thousand sixty-eight cases of posterior uveitides, including 82 cases of APMPPE, were evaluated by machine learning. Key criteria for APMPPE included: 1) choroidal lesions with a plaque-like or placoid appearance and 2) characteristic imaging on fluorescein angiography (lesions “block early and stain late diffusely”). Overall accuracy for posterior uveitides was 92.7% in the training set and 98.0% (95% confidence interval 94.3, 99.3) in the validation set. The misclassification rates for APMPPE were 5% in the training set and 0% in the validation set. / Conclusions: The criteria for APMPPE had a low misclassification rate and appeared to perform sufficiently well for use in clinical and translational research.

Type: Article
Title: Classification Criteria for Acute Posterior Multifocal Placoid Pigment Epitheliopathy
Location: United States
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2021.03.056
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajo.2021.03.056
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Institute of Ophthalmology
URI: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10126649
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