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. 2020 Aug 27;3:111. doi: 10.1038/s41746-020-00317-z

Table 5.

The accuracy (C-statistic, 95% confidence interval) of the three different approaches in predicting risk of progression to late AMD on the combined AREDS/AREDS2 test sets (601 participants), with the inclusion of accompanying genotype information.

(a) Models 1 2 3 4 5 All years
Late AMD
 Deep features/survival 88.8 (88.0,89.7) 85.4 (84.4,86.4) 86.1 (85.2,86.9) 86.9 (86.1,87.6) 86.6 (85.8,87.4) 86.8 (86.1,87.6)
 DL grading/survival 89.4 (88.2,90.6) 83.8 (82.4,85.1) 84.0 (83.0,85.1) 85.0 (84.2,85.8) 84.9 (84.2,85.6) 85.5 (84.9,86.2)
 Retinal specialists/calculator 78.7 (78.3,79.1) 82.4 (82.1,82.7) 83.6 (83.3,83.8) 83.1 (82.8,83.3)
Geographic atrophy
 Deep features/survival 89.5 (88.4,90.5) 90.7 (89.9,91.5) 88.6 (87.3,89.8) 89.0 (88.0,89.9) 89.5 (88.7,90.3) 89.4 (88.7,90.2)
 DL grading/survival 87.0 (86.0,88.0) 86.5 (85.6,87.5) 85.9 (85.0,86.8) 87.0 (86.3,87.7) 87.6 (87.0,88.2) 87.5 (87.0,88.0)
 Retinal specialists/calculator 77.6 (77.1,78.1) 81.8 (81.5,82.2) 83.0 (82.7,83.3) 83.2 (83.0,83.5)
Neovascular AMD
 Deep features/survival 85.8 (84.6,87.0) 79.1 (77.0,81.2) 81.9 (80.6,83.3) 82.4 (81.2,83.6) 81.7 (80.7,82.7) 82.6 (81.7,83.5)
 DL grading/survival 87.3 (86.3,88.3) 77.3 (75.1,79.5) 77.3 (75.6,79.0) 78.7 (77.1,80.2) 78.8 (77.4,80.1) 80.0 (78.8,81.3)
 Retinal specialists/calculator 77.3 (76.6,77.9) 82.0 (81.5,82.4) 82.4 (82.1,82.8) 80.9 (80.6,81.3)
(b) Models 1 2 3 4 5 All years
Late AMD
 Deep features/survival 87.9 (87.6,88.2) 84.8 (84.4,85.2) 85.9 (85.6,86.2) 86.2 (86.0,86.4) 86.0 (85.8,86.2) 86.4 (86.2,86.6)
 DL grading/survival 84.2 (83.8,84.6) 84.3 (84.0,84.6) 84.9 (84.7,85.2) 84.9 (84.7,85.1) 85.4 (85.2,85.6) 84.2 (83.8,84.6)
Geographic atrophy
 Deep features/survival 89.9 (89.6,90.1) 90.1 (89.8,90.4) 88.5 (88.2,88.8) 88.5 (88.2,88.7) 89.0 (88.8,89.2) 88.7 (88.5,88.9)
 DL grading/survival 87.0 (86.6,87.3) 86.2 (85.9,86.5) 86.7 (86.5,87.0) 87.1 (86.9,87.3) 87.0 (86.8,87.2) 87.0 (86.6,87.3)
Neovascular AMD
 Deep features/survival 83.7 (83.2,84.2) 77.6 (77.0,78.3) 81.5 (81.0,81.9) 81.9 (81.6,82.3) 81.3 (80.9,81.6) 82.3 (82.1,82.6)
 DL grading/survival 77.6 (77.0,78.3) 78.7 (78.2,79.2) 79.9 (79.5,80.3) 79.9 (79.5,80.2) 81.0 (80.7,81.4) 77.6 (77.0,78.3)

(a) Use of CFH rs1061170 and ARMS2 rs10490924 status only. (b) Use of CFH/ARMS2 and the 52 SNP-based AMD Genetic Risk Score. The AMD online calculator is able to receive only CFH rs1061170 and ARMS2 rs10490924 status, not the 52 SNP-based AMD Genetic Risk Score.