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. 2019 Jul 26;19:162. doi: 10.1186/s12886-019-1163-5

Table 1.

Major characteristics of included studies

Author Year Tp Fp Fn Tn Country Ethnicity Type of study Etiology Reference image Type of CNV Device
Moult E 2014 16 0 1 63 USA Caucasian Prospective AMD FA,ICGA NA VCSEL
Lupidi M 2015 4 0 1 20 France Caucasian Retrospective AOFVD FA,ICGA,OCT NA Spectralis
Bonini Filho MA 2015 8 0 0 19 USA Mixed Prospective CSCR FA Type1, mixed type 1/2 AngioVue
de Carlo TE 2015 4 2 4 20 USA Mixed Retrospective Multiple1 FA NA AngioVue
Shaimov TB 2015 33 1 4 14 Russia Caucasian Prospective AMD FA Type1,2 AngioVue
Carnevali A 2016 18 0 4 22 Italy Caucasian NA AMD ICGA NA AngioPlex/ Angiovue
Miyata M 2016 16 0 1 4 Japan Asian NA Myopia FA Type 2 AngioVue
de Carlo TE 2016 6 1 1 22 USA Caucasian Retrospective CSCR FA NA AngioVue
Gong J 2016 45 11 7 23 China Asian Retrospective AMD FA Type1,2,mixed type1/2 AngioVue
Querques L 2017 19 2 2 30 Italy Caucasian Retrospective Myopia FA,OCT NA AngioPlex
Faridi A 2017 32 0 0 40 USA Caucasian Prospective AMD FA,OCT NA AngioVue
Ahmed D 2018 81 0 26 49 Austria Caucasian Retrospective AMD FA Type1,2,3,mixed type Topcon
Nikolopoulou E 2018 44 2 6 18 Italy Caucasian Prospective AMD FA Type1,2,3,mixed type1/2 AngioVue
Souedan V 2018 8 1 1 6 France Caucasian Retrospective Multiple2 FA,OCT All types AngioVue
Soomro T 2018 32 6 13 26 England Caucasian Retrospective Multiple3 FA Type1,2 Spectralis
de Oliveira T 2019 9 0 1 12 Brazil Mixed NA Multiple4 FA,ICGA,OCT NA AngioVue

Tn True positive, Fp False positive, Fn False negative, Tn True negative, AMD Age-related macular degeneration, AOFVD Adult onset foveomacular vitelliform dystrophy, CSCR Central serous chorioretinopathy, FA Fluorescein angiography, ICGA Indocyanine green angiography, OCT Optical coherence tomography, CNV Choroidal neovascularization

Multiple1 = AMD, CSCR and different diagnosis (angioid streaks, multifocal choroiditis, myopic degeneration, pars planitis, or an unclear diagnosis with the differential diagnosis including CSCR, neo-vascular AMD, or polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV)

Multiple2 = AMD, reperfused central retinal artery obstruction, one adult onset pseudovitelliform lesion, drusenoid pigment epithelium detachment, CSCR, macroaneurysm and reticular dystrophy

Multiple3 = AMD, PCV, CSCR or pathological myopia

Multiple4 = AMD, PCV and CSCR

VCSEL = OCTA combining vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) swept light source OCT with 400 kHz A-scan rate prototype system

Topcon = Topcon OCT-A (Topcon Corporation, Tokyo, Japan)

AngioVue = AngioVue OCT-A (Optovue, Inc., Freemont, CA)

AngioPlex = AngioPlex OCT-A (Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc., Dublin, USA)

Spectralis = Spectralis OCT-A (Heidelberg Engineering, Heidelberg, Germany)

NA = Not available