Analysis of Corneal Data in R with the rPACI Package

Abstract:

In ophthalmology, the early detection of keratoconus is still a crucial problem. Placido disk corneal topographers are essential in clinical practice, and many indices for diagnosing corneal irregularities exist. The main goal of this work is to present the R package rPACI, providing several functions to handle and analyze corneal data. This package implements primary indices of corneal irregularity (based on geometrical properties) and compound indices built from the primary ones, either using a generalized linear model or as a Bayesian classifier using a hybrid Bayesian network and performing approximate inference. rPACI aims to make the analysis of corneal data accessible for practitioners and researchers in the field. Moreover, a shiny app was developed to use rPACI in any web browser in a truly user-friendly graphical interface without installing R or writing any R code. It is openly deployed at https://admaldonado.shinyapps.io/rPACI/.

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Authors

Affiliations

Darío Ramos-López

 

Ana D. Maldonado

 

Published

Dec. 14, 2021

Received

Oct 30, 2020

DOI

10.32614/RJ-2021-099

Volume

Pages

13/2

321 - 335

CRAN packages used

rPACI, shiny, bnlearn

CRAN Task Views implied by cited packages

Bayesian, GraphicalModels, HighPerformanceComputing, TeachingStatistics, WebTechnologies

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    Ramos-López & Maldonado, "The R Journal: Analysis of Corneal Data in R with the rPACI Package", The R Journal, 2021

    BibTeX citation

    @article{RJ-2021-099,
      author = {Ramos-López, Darío and Maldonado, Ana D.},
      title = {The R Journal: Analysis of Corneal Data in R with the rPACI Package},
      journal = {The R Journal},
      year = {2021},
      note = {https://doi.org/10.32614/RJ-2021-099},
      doi = {10.32614/RJ-2021-099},
      volume = {13},
      issue = {2},
      issn = {2073-4859},
      pages = {321-335}
    }