Explanatory Model of Dry Eye Disease Using Health and Nutrition Examinations: Machine Learning and Network-Based Factor Analysis From a National Survey

Sang Min Nam   ^{1 *} , MD, PhD ;   Thomas A Peterson   ^{2 *} , PhD ;   Atul J Butte   ² , MD, PhD ;   Kyoung Yul Seo   ³ , MD, PhD ;   Hyun Wook Han   ⁴ , MD, PhD

¹ Department of Ophthalmology, CHA Bundang Medical Center, CHA University, Seongnam, Republic of Korea

² Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

³ Department of Ophthalmology, Institute of Vision Research, Eye and Ear Hospital, Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

⁴ Department of Biomedical Informatics, CHA University School of Medicine, CHA University, Seongnam, Republic of Korea

*these authors contributed equally