Study acknowledgement
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The authors thank the staff and participants in the [….] for their important contributions.
[….]:Singapore Indian Eye Study -2 (SINDI-2), Singapore Chinese Eye Study-1 (SCES-1), etc
Conflict of interest: None.
Financial Disclosure(s): This study was supported by the Singapore Ministry of Health’s National Medical Research Council (NMRC), Biomedical Research Council (BMRC) according to the grant numbers below:
- SiMES-1: NMRC/0796/2003
- SICC-1: BMRC/08/1/35/19/550
- SiMES-2: NMRC/1249/2010
- SINDI-2: NMRC/CIRG/1371/2013
- SCES-2: NMRC/CIRG/1417/2015
- SiMES-3 pilot studies: SNEC-HREF/ R1402/88/2016
Based on the specific study aim and dataset used, you may refer to the relevant grant numbers listed in the SEED website or consult senior authors.
Role of the Funder/Sponsor: The funding source had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript; and decision to submit the manuscript for publication.
Grant Sources
| S/N | Title | Funding body | PI | Period | Grant No. | |
| 1 | Novel Retinal Vascular Imaging for Prediction of Stroke Sub-type and Long-term Outcomes after an Acute Ischemic Stroke Event | SingHealth Research Foundation (SHF), Singapore, | Prof Wong Tien Yin | Apr 2008 – Mar 2010 | SHF/FG370P/2007 | closed |
| 2 | Retinal Imaging for Disease Prediction: From Bench to Bedside | National Medical Research Council (NMRC), Singapore, | Prof Wong Tien Yin | Apr 2008- Mar 2014 | NMRC/STaR/0003/2008 | |
| 3 | The Singapore Indian Chinese Cohort Eye Study – Elucidating the Epidemiology, Novel Risk Factors, and Impact of Eye Diseases in Asians | Biomedical Research Council (BMRC), Singapore, | Prof Wong Tien Yin | Jun 2008 – May 2012 | 08/1/35/19/550 | |
| 4. | AGLAIA: Automatic glaucoma diagnosis and its genetic association study through medical image informatics | Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) A*Star, Singapore | Prof Wong Tien Yin | Mar 2009 – Mar 2013 | 092 148 0073 | |
| 5. | A study on the automatic detection of age-related macular degeneration | A*STAR, Science and Engineering Institute (SCEI), Singapore, | Prof Wong Tien Yin | Jan 2011- Dec 2012 | 102 148 0001 | |
| 6. | Age Related Macular Degeneration in Asian populations – a comparative genetic study between three major Asian ethnic groups [Chinese, Indians and Malays] in Singapore | American Health Assistance Foundation (AHAF), USA, | Prof Wong Tien Yin | Jan 2011- June 2013 | M2011068 | |
| 7. | Does Genetic Variation in the CFH region of Age-Related Macular Degeneration patients allow Bacteria to trigger the Disease? | Biomedical Research Council (BMRC), Singapore, | Prof Wong Tien Yin | Apr 2011- Sep 2014 | TCR10/1/35/19/671 | |
| 8. | Angle Closure Glaucoma: Novel methods for Imaging, Risk Assessment and Screening | Biomedical Research Council (BMRC), Singapore, | Prof Aung Tin | Apr 2011- Sep 2014 | TCR101674D | |
| 9. | Iris and Choroidal Characteristics in Asian Eyes: Elucidating the Mechanism of Primary Angle Closure Glaucoma | National Medical Research Council (NMRC), Singapore, | A/Prof Cheng Ching-Yu | Nov 2011 – May 2015 | NIG11may029 | |
| 10 | Singapore Age-related macular degeneration Genetic Architecture (SAGA) Study: from Population Genomics to Personalized Medicine | National Medical Research Council (NMRC), Singapore | A/Prof Cheng Ching-Yu | May 2012- May 2017 | NMRC/CSA/033/2012 | |
| 11 | Applications of Semiparametric Regression Models in Prospective Cohort Studies | National Medical Research Council (NMRC), Singapore, | A/Prof Li Jialiang | Jul 2012 – Jan 2017 | CBRG11nov060 | |
| 12. | Automatic Glaucoma Screening through Cup-to-Disc Ratio (CDR) Measurement | Biomedical Research Council (BMRC), Singapore, | A/Prof Cheng Ching-Yu | Aug 2012- Apr 2015 | 121 148 0007 | |
| 13. | Singapore Diabetic Retinopathy Epidemiology, biomArkers and iMaging (DREAM) program | National Medical Research Council (NMRC), Singapore, | Prof Wong Tien Yin | Oct 2013 – Oct 2018 | STaR/0016/2013 | |
| 14. | Vision Funds – Retina, Imaging and Epidemiology | DUKE-NUS, Singapore, | Prof Wong Tien Yin | July 2014 – June 2019 | DUKE-NUS/RSF/2014/0001 | |
| 15. | Retinal Microvascular Abnormalities as Predictors of Decline in Kidney Function in the Singapore Indian Eye Study Cohort | DUKE-NUS Khoo Mentor Research Award, | Dr Charumathi Sabanayagam | Feb 2015 – Jan 2018 | Duke-NUS-KMRA/2015/0003 | |
| 16. | The Pilot Singapore Malay Eye Study 3 (SiMES-3) – Prospective cohort study of 12-year incidence, risk factors, and impact of major Asian eye diseases | Singapore National Eye Centre Health Endowment Funds, Singapore | Prof Wong Tien Yin | Feb 2017 – Aug 2018 | NA | |
| 17. | Diabetes StudY in Nephropathy And other Microvascular cOmplications | National Medical Research Council (NMRC), Singapore | Prof Thomas Coffman | Apr 2018 – Jun 2023 | OFLCG/001/2017 | |
| 18. | The Singapore Epidemiology of Eye Diseases (SEED) Study 3: Prospective multi-ethnic cohort study of 12-year incidence, risk factors, and impact of major age-related eye diseases | National Medical Research Council (NMRC), Singapore | Prof Cheng Ching-Yu | Aug 2018 – Feb 2023 | NMRC/CIRG/1448/2018 | |
| 19. | Translational Asian Age-Related Macular Degeneration Program (TAAP) | National Medical Research Council (NMRC), Singapore | Prof Gemmy Cheung | Aug 2018 – Jul 2024 | NMRC/OFLCG/004a/2018 | On-going |
| 20. | Artificial Intelligence for Functional VIsion Screening Using Retinal Imaging (AVIRI) | SingHealth-National Health Innovation Centre, Singapore | Asst/Prof Tham Yih Chung | Mar 2019 – Sep 2020 | AM-NHIC/JMT005/2018 | closed |
| 21 | Community-based Screening for Pathological Visual Impairment among Elderly Residents using Artificial-Intelligence Integrated Retinal Imaging | Research Council (NMRC), Singapore | Asst/Prof Tham Yih Chung | Sep 2019 – Feb 2023 | MOH-000268 | closed |
| 22 | Advancing precision medicine for cardiovascular disease and diabetes in Asian populations | National Medical Research Council (NMRC), Singapore | Prof John Chambers | Aug 2019 – Jul 2024 | MOH-000271-00 | On-going |
| 23 | Implementation of Community-based Elderly Health Care for Eye and Systemic Diseases Using Automated Screening | Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore | Asst/Prof Tyler Hungtaek Rim | Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | A19D1b0095 | closed |
| 24 | From Machine to Machine – Developing a Deep Learning Algorithm for Quantification of Ocular Traits based on Retinal Photographs | SingHealth-National Health Innovation Centre, Singapore | Asst/Prof Tyler Hungtaek Rim | Apr 2020 – Mar 2021 | AM-NHIC/JMT010/2020 | closed |
| 25 | MARIO : Multimodal AI-Driven Decision Making for Ophthalmology | Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore | Prof Cheng Ching-Yu, Dr Liu Yong | Apr 2021 – Mar 2024 | A20H4g2141 |
On-going
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| 26 | Digital and Precision Community Screening Platform for Ageing Diseases: Vision, Metabolism and Heart | Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore | Prof Cheng Ching-Yu, Dr Xu Xinxing | Jun 2021 – May 2025 | H20c6a0031 | |
| 27 | Novel AI-driven ageing biomarker based on retinal photos for mortality risk stratification | National Medical Research Council (NMRC), Singapore | Prof Cheng Ching-Yu | Nov 2021 – Apr 2024 | MOH-HLCA21Jan-0004 | |
| 28 | Refinement and Prospective Validation of a Deep Learning Algorithm for Detecting Chronic Kidney Disease Using Retinal Images (RetiKid) | National Medical Research Council (NMRC), Singapore | A/Prof Charumathi Sabanayagam | Mar 2022 – Feb 2025 | HCSAINV21jun-0001 | |
| 29 | TAckling & Reducing Glaucoma Blindness with Emerging Technologies (TARGET) | National Medical Research Council (NMRC), Singapore | Prof Aung Tin | Jul 2022 – Jul 2027 | OFLCG21jun-0014 | |
| 30 | AI-Assisted Visual Impairment Screening Model: Community-based Implementation and Evaluation of Performance, Feasibility and Costs | National Medical Research Council (NMRC), Singapore | Asst/Prof Tham Yih Chung | Oct 2022 – Sep 2025 | HCSAINV21nov-0001 | |
| 31 | Transforming Population Eye Health Research (Transformer) Program: From Data and Algorithms to Precision Health | National Medical Research Council (NMRC), Singapore | Prof Cheng Ching-Yu | Apr 2023 – Mar 2028 | CSASI22jul-0002 | |
| 32 | Biological mechanisms of the protective effect of statin medication for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) | SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medicine, Singapore | Asst/Prof Simon Nusinovici | Apr 2023 – Mar 2025 | AM/TP071/2023 | |
| 33 | Diabetes StudY in Nephropathy And other Microvascular cOmplications II | National Medical Research Council (NMRC), Singapore | Prof Thomas Coffman | Jul 2023 – Jun 2028 | OFLCG22may-0011 |