Global optical coherence tomography measures for detecting the progression of glaucoma have fundamental flaws.
Sun Ashley, Tsamis Emmanouil, Eguia Melvi D, Liebmann Jeffrey M, Blumberg Dana M, Al-Aswad Lama A et al.
This study found global OCT metrics for glaucoma progression have high false positive/negative rates due to scanning errors and missing local damage, questioning their clinical utility.