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Automatic method of analysis and measurement of additional parameters of corneal deformation in the Corvis tonometer.

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INTRODUCTION:The method for measuring intraocular pressure using the Corvis tonometer provides a sequence of images of corneal deformation. Deformations of the cornea are recorded using the ultra-high-speed Scheimpflug camera. This paper presents a new and reproducible method of analysis of corneal deformation images that allows for automatic measurements of new features, namely new three parameters unavailable in the original software. MATERIAL AND METHOD:The images subjected to processing had a resolution of 200 × 576 × 140 pixels. They were acquired from the Corvis tonometer and simulation. In total 14,000 2D images were analysed. The image analysis method proposed by the author automatically detects the edge of the cornea and sclera fragments. For this purpose, new methods of image analysis and processing proposed by the author as well as those well-known, such as Canny filter, binarization, median filtering etc., have been used. The presented algorithms were implemented in Matlab (version 7.11.0.584-R2010b) with Image Processing toolbox (version 7.1-R2010b) using both known algorithms for image analysis and processing and those proposed by the author. RESULTS:Owing to the proposed algorithm it is possible to determine three parameters: (1) the degree of the corneal reaction relative to the static position; (2) the corneal length changes; (3) the ratio of amplitude changes to the corneal deformation length. The corneal reaction is smaller by about 30.40% compared to its static position. The change in the corneal length during deformation is very small, approximately 1% of its original length. Parameter (3) enables to determine the applanation points with a correlation of 92% compared to the conventional method for calculating corneal flattening areas. The proposed algorithm provides reproducible results fully automatically within a few seconds/per patient using Core i7 processor. CONCLUSIONS:Using the proposed algorithm, it is possible to measure new, additional parameters of corneal deformation, which are not available in the original software. The presented analysis method provides three new parameters of the corneal reaction. Detailed clinical studies based on this method will be presented in subsequent papers.

journal_name

Biomed Eng Online

journal_title

Biomedical engineering online

authors

Koprowski R

doi

10.1186/1475-925X-13-150

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2014-11-19 00:00:00

pages

150

issn

1475-925X

pii

1475-925X-13-150

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Automatic method of analysis and measurement of additional parameters of corneal deformation in the Corvis tonometer.