Publications by authors named "Lubaina T Arsiwala-Scheppach"

Purpose: To investigate predictors of the development and resolution of cystoid macular edema (CME) after rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) repair.

Design: Retrospective cross sectional study.

Subjects: Patients who underwent primary repair of uncomplicated RRD.

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Objectives: We aimed to understand how artificial intelligence (AI) influences dentists by comparing their gaze behavior when using versus not using an AI software to detect primary proximal carious lesions on bitewing radiographs.

Methods: 22 dentists assessed a median of 18 bitewing images resulting in 170 datasets from dentists without AI and 179 datasets from dentists with AI, after excluding data with poor gaze recording quality. We compared time to first fixation, fixation count, average fixation duration, and fixation frequency between both trial groups.

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Objectives: Understanding dentists' gaze patterns on radiographs may allow to unravel sources of their limited accuracy and develop strategies to mitigate them. We conducted an eye tracking experiment to characterize dentists' scanpaths and thus their gaze patterns when assessing bitewing radiographs to detect primary proximal carious lesions.

Methods: 22 dentists assessed a median of nine bitewing images each, resulting in 170 datasets after excluding data with poor quality of gaze recording.

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Purpose: To compare the choice of intraocular lens (IOL) and sociodemographic characteristics between patients who underwent elective cataract surgery before the COVID-19 pandemic and during the pandemic at the Wilmer Eye Institute.

Methods: A retrospective chart review of patients who underwent cataract surgery before the COVID-19 pandemic (June 1 to November 30, 2019) and during the pandemic (June 1 to November 30, 2020) was conducted. Sociodemographic information, including age, sex, race, and insurance, and choice of IOL (premium or standard) were analyzed.

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Machine learning (ML) is being increasingly employed in dental research and application. We aimed to systematically compile studies using ML in dentistry and assess their methodological quality, including the risk of bias and reporting standards. We evaluated studies employing ML in dentistry published from 1 January 2015 to 31 May 2021 on MEDLINE, IEEE Xplore, and arXiv.

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Purpose: To explore the relationship of long-term blood pressure (BP) patterns with late-life optical coherence tomography (OCT) structural measures reflecting optic nerve health.

Methods: Participants in this community-based cohort study of black and white individuals were part of the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study and the nested Eye Determinants of Cognition (EyeDOC) study. Participants had BP measured six times from 1987 to 2017 and were categorized into five BP patterns: sustained normotension; midlife normotension, late-life hypertension (systolic BP [SBP] >140 mmHg or diastolic BP [DBP] >90 mmHg or antihypertensive medication use); sustained hypertension; midlife normotension, late-life hypotension (SBP <90 mmHg or DBP <60 mmHg); and midlife hypertension, late-life hypotension.

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Purpose: Objective examination of relationships among visual, hearing, and olfactory function may yield mechanistic insights and inform our understanding of the burden of multiple-sensory impairments.

Methods: This cross-sectional study capitalized on continuous measures of visual acuity (VA), contrast sensitivity, pure tone audiometry, Quick Speech-in-Noise (QuickSIN), and Sniffin' Sticks from a subset of ARIC participants at two community sites (EyeDOC Study, 2017-2019). Scales of all measures were aligned such that higher values indicated greater impairment.

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Rationale & Objective: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a risk factor for cognitive decline, but evidence is limited on its etiology and morphological manifestation in the brain. We evaluated the association of estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) and urinary albumin-creatinine ratio (UACR) with structural brain abnormalities visible on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). We also assessed whether this association was altered when different filtration markers were used to estimate GFR.

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This two-arm, parallel, randomized controlled trial aimed to assess the effect of augmented vision (AV, using interactive color overlays) on the education of dental students in detecting proximal carious lesions on bitewing radiographs compared to black-and-white textbook-like illustrations. Forty-eight preclinical third-year dental students were randomized using a random number generator into two learning groups: test (AV, allowing interaction with color-highlighted carious lesions, n = 24) and control (showing the native radiograph and a black-and-white illustration displaying the carious lesion, n = 24). First, students had 2 weeks to assess 50 bitewings (lesion prevalence on the tooth level: 54.

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Importance: Although there is abundant evidence relating neuronal and vascular optical coherence tomography (OCT) and OCT angiography (OCTA) measures to retinal disease, data on the normative distribution of retinal features and their associations with visual function in a healthy, older, community-based population are sparse.

Objectives: To characterize the normative OCT and OCTA measures in older adults and describe their associations with visual function.

Design, Setting, And Participants: This was a cross-sectional, observational study conducted from May 17, 2017, to May 31, 2019.

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