DL Progression Model
Details of the model have been published previously.The model produces a progression risk score per eye as a number between 0 and 1, representing the likelihood of an eye progressing in terms of DR severity within certain time windows. For this study, the likelihood of progression from no or mild DR to MOD+ within a 1-year window (i.e., at the subsequent annual screen) was used. The model evaluates each eye separately, and the maximum of the two per-eye scores was used for prioritization ranking of patients for this study.