Fig. 1
Pipeline of the study. The study pipeline consists of three sections. a for the first stage in original data integration, 15 potential factors of 160 CCPMOH patients were included into analysis (237 patients recruited with 77 excluded due to incomplete or missing clinical record). All the included patients are diagnosis with pediatric cataract. b for the second stage, after pre-modeling, 8 filter factors were included into the final two-layer network construction. c, for the third stage, fitting indices (χ2 et al.) were used for the network evaluation. Estimated and standardized values were obtained after evaluation. Finally, these values accompanied with previous clinical evidences could be translated into clinical interpretations. CCPMOH Childhood Cataract Program of the Chinese Ministry of Health