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Retinal Clinical Assessment With AI-derived Quantitative Information
Sponsor: Beijing Tongren Hospital
Summary
This randomized controlled trial evaluates whether providing clinicians with AI-derived quantitative retinal information improves the quality and efficiency of retinal clinical assessment. Participating ophthalmologists and ophthalmology trainees will be randomly assigned to one of two groups. The intervention group will write clinical reports with access to automated quantitative measurements generated from fundus image analysis, including multiple retinal structural and vascular biomarkers. The control group will complete the same reporting tasks using only the original fundus images without AI-generated quantitative information. All reports produced by both groups will be de-identified and independently evaluated by a separate panel of senior ophthalmologists who are blinded to group allocation. The expert evaluators will assess report accuracy, completeness, clarity, and overall clinical quality using predefined scoring criteria. The study aims to determine whether access to quantitative retinal biomarkers enhances clinicians' reporting performance and reduces reporting time during retinal assessment tasks.
Official title: AI-derived Retinal Quantification Versus Routine Clinical Interpretation in Ophthalmic Assessment: a Randomized Controlled Trial
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
Any - Any
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
21
Start Date
2025-12-15
Completion Date
2026-01-31
Last Updated
2025-12-18
Healthy Volunteers
Yes
Conditions
Interventions
AI-derived retinal quantitative information-assisted reporting
Clinicians assigned to the intervention arm will complete retinal clinical reports with access to an AI system that provides automated retinal feature quantification. The system generates multiple quantitative retinal biomarkers-including vessel characteristics, optic nerve head metrics, macular indices, and other region-specific structural measurements-derived from automated segmentation of each fundus image. During report writing, clinicians can view these AI-generated quantitative values alongside the image. The system does not provide diagnostic labels, impressions, or textual interpretations; it only supplies numerical measurements intended to support clinicians' assessment. All clinical judgments, narrative descriptions, and final conclusions in the report are made solely by the clinician.