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Title: Dynamic curvature topography for evaluating the anterior corneal surface change with Corvis ST
Authors: Ji, CH
Yu, JH
Li, TJ
Tian, L
Huang, YF
Wang, YY
Zheng, YP 
Issue Date: 2015
Source: Biomedical engineering online, 2015, v. 14, 53, p. 1-16
Abstract: Background: The measurement of dynamic parameters, such as the length of applanation and the amplitude of deformation, is significant for evaluating corneal properties. Most of the corneal properties (related to shape) including the anterior corneal curvature and the thickness of cornea can be easily measured using some existing techniques. However, they only provide the static or pseudo-dynamic analysis. Based on Corvis ST images, the dynamic features after corneal boundaries detection and parameter estimation will be helpful for corneal analysis. Material: The study included 40 eyes in normal group (ranging from 19 to 45 years old) and 30 eyes in keratoconus group (ranging from 16 to 40 years old). These eyes were examined by Corvis ST and for each one a sequence of 140 images was obtained. Besides, 11 subjects of each group were also tested by Pentacam.
Methods: By analyzing the video from the Corvis ST imaging, the fully dynamic curvature topography is proposed to evaluate the response of the anterior corneal surface to the air puff. The new method not only quantitatively measures the intact variation of anterior corneal surface but also provides an intuitive way to observe the dynamic change of the anterior corneal surface in the whole air stream process. The proposed method consists of three main steps: cornea segmentation, curvature estimation and integrated visualization. An automatic segmentation method based on the combination of prior knowledge with phase symmetry and asymmetry theory is firstly presented to detect the corneal boundaries. The Landau-new method is then used to estimate the anterior corneal surface. The corneal dynamic topography is finally obtained by combining the dynamic parameters with the original Corvis ST video, which is an improvement of the fusion technique proposed by Li et al.
Results and conclusion: By comparing the segmentation results with manual method and built-in method of Corvis ST, the accuracy and robustness of our proposed segmentation method is demonstrated. The correctness of the estimated corneal anterior curvatures is also evaluated by comparing it with that of Pentacam which is considered to be able to provide the first-class measurement currently. The dynamic topography may be used to distinguish the dynamic behavior of normal corneas from that of keratoconus.
Keywords: Dynamic parameter
Segmentation
Cornea
Corvis ST
Publisher: BioMed Central
Journal: Biomedical engineering online 
ISSN: 1475-925X
DOI: 10.1186/s12938-015-0036-2
Rights: © 2015 Ji etal. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
The following publication Ji, C. H., Yu, J. H., Li, T. J., Tian, L., Huang, Y. F., Wang, Y. Y., & Zheng, Y. P. (2015). Dynamic curvature topography for evaluating the anterior corneal surface change with Corvis ST. Biomedical Engineering Online, 14, 53, 1-16 is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12938-015-0036-2
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