Journal of Academic Ophthalmology, Table of Contents CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Journal of Academic Ophthalmology 2019; 11(01): e22-e24DOI: 10.1055/s-0039-1685535 Editorial Thieme Medical Publishers 333 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10001, USA. Learning Algorithms for Ophthalmologists: A Conceptual Primer Ariana M. Levin 1 John A. Moran Eye Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah , Rebekah H. Gensure 1 John A. Moran Eye Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah , Jeff Pettey 1 John A. Moran Eye Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah › Author Affiliations Recommend Article Abstract Full Text References References 1 Abràmoff MD, Lavin PT, Birch M, Shah N, Folk JC. Pivotal trial of an autonomous AI-based diagnostic system for detection of diabetic retinopathy in primary care offices. Nature Digit Med 2018; 1 (01) 39 2 Sample PA, Goldbaum MH, Chan K. , et al. Using machine learning classifiers to identify glaucomatous change earlier in standard visual fields. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2002; 43 (08) 2660-2665 3 Rojas J, Fernandez I, Pastor JC. , et al. Development of predictive models of proliferative vitreoretinopathy based on genetic variables: the Retina 4 project. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2009; 50 (05) 2384-2390 4 Goldbaum MH. Kozak I, Hao J. , et al. Pattern recognition can detect subtle field defects in eyes of HIV individuals without retinitis under HAART. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 2011; 294 (04) 491-498 5 Sample PA, Chan K, Boden C. , et al. Using unsupervised learning with variational bayesian mixture of factor analysis to identify patterns of glaucomatous visual field defects. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2004; 45 (08) 2596-2605 6 Elze T, Pasquale LR, Shen LQ, Chen TC, Wiggs JL, Bex PJ. Patterns of functional vision loss in glaucoma determined with archetypal analysis. J R Soc Interface 2015; 12 (103) 20141118 7 Gulshan V, Peng L, Coram M. , et al. Development and validation of a deep learning algorithm for detection of diabetic retinopathy in retinal fundus photographs. JAMA 2016; 316 (22) 2402-2410 8 Kass MA, Heuer DK, Higginbotham EJ. , et al. The Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study: a randomized trial determines that topical ocular hypotensive medication delays or prevents the onset of primary open-angle glaucoma. Arch Ophthalmol 2002; 120 (06) 701-713 , discussion 829–830