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3 December 2019 Corneal thickness measurement by secondary speckle tracking and image processing using machine-learning algorithms
Aviya Bennett, Elnatan Davidovitch, Yafim Beiderman, Sergey Agdarov, Yevgeny Beiderman, Avital Moshkovitz, Uri Polat, Zeev Zalevsky
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Abstract

Corneal thickness (CoT) is an important tool in the evaluation process for several disorders and in the assessment of intraocular pressure. We present a method enabling high-precision measurement of CoT based on secondary speckle tracking and processing of the information by machine-learning (ML) algorithms. The proposed configuration includes capturing by fast camera the laser beam speckle patterns backscattered from the corneal–scleral border, followed by ML processing of the image. The technique was tested on a series of phantoms having different thicknesses as well as in clinical trials on human eyes. The results show high accuracy in determination of eye CoT, and implementation is speedy in comparison with other known measurement methods.

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Aviya Bennett, Elnatan Davidovitch, Yafim Beiderman, Sergey Agdarov, Yevgeny Beiderman, Avital Moshkovitz, Uri Polat, and Zeev Zalevsky "Corneal thickness measurement by secondary speckle tracking and image processing using machine-learning algorithms," Journal of Biomedical Optics 24(12), 126001 (3 December 2019). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.24.12.126001
Received: 26 June 2019; Accepted: 4 November 2019; Published: 3 December 2019
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Cited by 3 scholarly publications.
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KEYWORDS
Commercial off the shelf technology

Speckle

Eye

Image processing

Speckle pattern

Cameras

Cornea

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