Research Article

Novice Reviewers Retain High Sensitivity and Specificity of Posterior Segment Disease Identification with iWellnessExam

Table 1

Sensitivity and specificity of disease identification using only iWellnessExam data, by educational experience.

Sensitivity  Specificity
Any posterior
seg. disease
Retinal diseaseON disease  Normal

Nonoptometric technician81.2%74.6%88.0%  84.1%
Pre-1st yr, technician93.1%88.1%96.0%  91.3%
1st yr student94.1%88.1%76.0%  78.6%
3rd yr student94.1%86.6%92.0%  83.3%
Expert96.0%95.5%90.0%  99.2%

Average of novices90.6 ± 6.3%84.3 ± 6.5%88.0 ± 8.6%  84.3 ± 5.2%