background: amblyopia is considered as one of the most prevalent vision problems in pediatrics age (1-5%). recently, new methods in amblyopia treatment were reported in amblyopia treatment study (ats’).the objective of this study was to recognize amblyopia treatment knowledge of iranian ophthalmologists and optometrists which are responsible for amblyopia treatment in our and other countries. m...

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have successfully been used to classify diabetic retinopathy (DR) fundus images in recent times. However, deeper representations CNNs may capture higher-level semantics at the expense of spatial resolution. To make predictions usable for ophthalmologists, we use a post-attention technique called Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mapping (Grad-CAM) on penult...

purpose: to describe the prophylactic patterns for endophthalmitis after cataract surgery in iran. methods: in this cross-sectional study, 486 ophthalmologists, members of iranian society of ophthalmology, who participated in the 20th annual meeting of ophthalmology in december 2010, tehran-iran, filled a self-administered questionnaire. a wide range of ophthalmologists, from all around the cou...

PURPOSE To analyze and compare malpractice claims rates between male and female ophthalmologists and test the hypothesis that claims rates are equal between the two sexes. METHODS A retrospective, cohort study review was made of all claims reported to the Ophthalmic Mutual Insurance Company from January 1990 through December 2008 in which an expense (including indemnity and/or legal defense c...

OBJECTIVE To measure annual population-based volume of emergency department (ED) eye care and concurrent ophthalmology on-call coverage. METHODS Analysis and correlation of the 2006 Florida Agency of Health Care Administration ED and inpatient data sets with the 2007 Florida Physician Workforce Survey. RESULTS The Florida Physician Workforce Survey showed 46.3% of ophthalmologists surveyed ...