Multimodal imaging of ocular surface of dry eye subjects

Aizhong Zhang; Gheorghe Salahura; Ranjini Kottaiyan; Geunyoung Yoon; James V. Aquavella; James M. Zavislan

doi:10.1117/12.2205263

7 March 2016 Multimodal imaging of ocular surface of dry eye subjects

Aizhong Zhang, Gheorghe Salahura, Ranjini Kottaiyan, Geunyoung Yoon, James V. Aquavella, James M. Zavislan

Proceedings Volume 9701, Multimodal Biomedical Imaging XI; 97010H (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2205263
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2016, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

To study the relationship between the corneal lipid layer and the ocular surface temperature (OST), we conducted a clinical trial for 20 subjects. Subjects were clinically screened prior to the trial. Of the 20 subjects, 15 have Meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD), and 5 have aqueous-deficient dry eye (ADDE). A custom, circularly polarized illumination video tearscope measured the lipid layer thickness of the ocular tear film. A long-wave infrared video camera recorded the dynamic thermal properties of the ocular team film. The results of these two methods were analyzed and compared. Using principal component analysis (PCA) of the lipid layer distribution, we find that the 20 subjects could be categorized into five statistically significant groups, independent of their original clinical classification: thin (6 subjects), medium (5 subjects), medium and homogenous (3 subjects), thick (4 subjects), and very thick (2 subjects) lipids, respectively. We also conducted PCA of the OST data, and recategorized the subjects into two thermal groups by k-means clustering: one includes all ADDE subjects and some MGD subjects; the other includes the remaining MGD subjects. By comparing these two methods, we find that dry eye subjects with thin (≤ 40 nm) lipids have significantly lower OST, and a larger OST drop range, potentially due to more evaporation. However, as long as the lipid layer is not thin (> 40 nm), there is no strong correlation between the lipid layer thickness and heterogeneity and the OST patterns.

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Aizhong Zhang, Gheorghe Salahura, Ranjini Kottaiyan, Geunyoung Yoon, James V. Aquavella, and James M. Zavislan "Multimodal imaging of ocular surface of dry eye subjects", Proc. SPIE 9701, Multimodal Biomedical Imaging XI, 97010H (7 March 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2205263

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