Research and Awards
Research publications on the Melbourne Rapid Fields software
A Comparison of Perimetric Results from a Tablet Perimeter and Humphrey Field Analyzer in Glaucoma Patients
Yu Xiang George Kong; Mingguang He; Jonathan G. Crowston; Algis J. Vingrys
Translational Vision Science & Technology. November 2016, Vol.5, 2.
Comparison of Perimetric Outcomes from a Tablet Perimeter, Smart Visual Function Analyzer, and Humphrey Field Analyzer
Joyce Kang, BA Sofia De Arrigunaga, MD, MPH Sandra E. Freeman, BA Yan Zhao, MS Michael Lin, MD Daniel L. Liebman, MD Ana M. Roldan, MD Julia A. Kim, BS Dolly S. Chang, MD, PhD David S. Friedman, MD, PhD Tobias Elze, PhD
Ophthalmology Glaucoma 2023
Evaluation of the Melbourne Rapid Fields Test Procedure.
Paul Alan Harris, Chris A Johnson, Yuan Chen , Hannah Fann , Gabrielle Gafford, Ye Ji Kim, Ellilta D Mezgebu
Optom Vis Sci
. 2022 Apr 1;99(4):372-382.
Performance of a Smart Device over 12-Months for Home Monitoring of Patients with Intermediate Age-Related Macular Degeneration.
Selwyn Prea, Robyn Guymer, George Kong, Algis Vingrys
J Clin Med
. 2023 Mar 27;12(7):2530.
Test Reliability and Compliance to a Twelve-Month Visual Field Telemedicine Study in Glaucoma Patients.
Prea SM, Vingrys AJ, Kong YXG.
J Clin Med
. 2022 Jul 25;11(15):4317.
Screening for Glaucomatous Visual Field Defects in Rural Australia with an iPad.
Mark A Chia, Edward Trang, Ashish Agar, Algis J Vingrys, Jenny Hepschke, George Yx Kong, Angus W Turner
J Curr Glaucoma Pract
. 2021 Sep-Dec;15(3):125-131.
Uptake, persistence, and performance of weekly home monitoring of visual field in a large cohort of patients with glaucoma.
Prea SM, Kong YXG, Guymer R, Vingrys AJ.
American Journal of Ophthalmology Nov 2020
The short-term compliance and concordance to in clinic testing for tablet-based home monitoring in age-related macular degeneration.
Prea SM, Kong YXG, Guymer R, Sharangan P, Baglin E, Vingrys AJ.
American Journal of Ophthalmology Sep 2021
Can Home Monitoring Allow Earlier Detection of Rapid Visual Field Progression in Glaucoma?
Anderson AJ, Bedggood PA, George Kong YX, Martin KR, Vingrys AJ.
Ophthalmology 2017
Six-month longitudinal comparison of a portable tablet perimeter with the Humphrey Field Analyser.
Prea SM, Kong YXG, Mehta A, He M, Crowston JG, Gupta V, Martin KR, Vingrys AJ
Am J Ophthalmol. 2018 Mar 14.
Scaling the size of perimetric stimuli reduces variability and returns constant thresholds across the visual field.
Bedggood P, Prea SM, Kong YXG, Vingrys AJ.
Journal of Vision 21(11):2
GLAUCOMA SCREENING USING AN IPAD-BASED VISUAL FIELD TEST IN A WEST AFRICAN POPULATION.
Prince J, Thompson A, Mwanza J, Tolleson-Reinehard S, Bedenz DL
Ophthalmology Glaucoma
Comparison of Perimetric Outcomes from Melbourne Rapid Fields Tablet Perimeter Software and Humphrey Field Analyzer in Glaucoma Patients.
Kumar H, Thulasidas M.
Journal of Ophthalmology
Visual field testing in the era of portable consumer technology
Kong YXG
Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology 2018 Jun 12.
Performance of iPad-based threshold perimetry in glaucoma and controls
Angela M Schulz PhD, Elizabeth C Graham BMus, YuYi You PhD, Alexander Klistorner MD PhD, Stuart L Graham FRANZCO PhD
Clinical & Experimental Ophthalmology 2017
Validation of a Tablet as a Tangent Perimeter
Algis J. Vingrys; Jessica K. Healey; Sheryl Liew; Veera Saharinen; Michael Tran; William Wu; George Y. X. Kong
Translational Vision Science & Technology July 2016, Vol.5, 3.
Tablets at the Bedside: iPad-based Visual Field Test used in the diagnosis of Intrasellar Haemangiopericytoma
Nisha Nesaratnam, Peter Thomas, R Kirollos, Algis J Vingrys, Yu Xiang George Kong, Keith R Martin.
BMC Ophthalmology 2017
Acquired Visual Deficits Independent of Lesion Site in Acute Stroke
Chamini Wijesundera, Algis J. Vingrys, Tissa Wijeratne and Sheila G. Crewther
Front. Neurol., 17 July 2020
Our Awards
Gerard Crock Trophy for Best Paper presentation at Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists Congress 2022
Nominated and awarded as a 'HOT topic' at ARVO (Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology) in 2016 and 2018. This nomination is ONLY made to the top 2% (>10000) of submissions to ARVO.
Nov 2017 - Melbourne Academic Halth Care (MACH) translation - $20,000 FIRST prize for startup development.
Feb 2017 Awarded Prize for Translational Development of a novel vision test at the Asia-ARVO meeting, Brisbane.
2016 Finalist in the MedTech Got Talent technology competition (Vic Government, Nov 2016).
AMP Tomorrow Maker Award 2015.
Patents
Provisional Patent AU2023902320
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