Comparison of parametric methods for modeling corneal surfaces

Hala Bouazizi; Isabelle Brunette; Jean Meunier

doi:10.1117/12.2254426

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24 February 2017 Comparison of parametric methods for modeling corneal surfaces

Hala Bouazizi, Isabelle Brunette, Jean Meunier

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Proceedings Volume 10133, Medical Imaging 2017: Image Processing; 101332E (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2254426
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2017, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Corneal topography is a medical imaging technique to get the 3D shape of the cornea as a set of 3D points of its anterior and posterior surfaces. From these data, topographic maps can be derived to assist the ophthalmologist in the diagnosis of disorders. In this paper, we compare three different mathematical parametric representations of the corneal surfaces leastsquares fitted to the data provided by corneal topography. The parameters obtained from these models reduce the dimensionality of the data from several thousand 3D points to only a few parameters and could eventually be useful for diagnosis, biometry, implant design etc. The first representation is based on Zernike polynomials that are commonly used in optics. A variant of these polynomials, named Bhatia-Wolf will also be investigated. These two sets of polynomials are defined over a circular domain which is convenient to model the elevation (height) of the corneal surface. The third representation uses Spherical Harmonics that are particularly well suited for nearly-spherical object modeling, which is the case for cornea. We compared the three methods using the following three criteria: the root-mean-square error (RMSE), the number of parameters and the visual accuracy of the reconstructed topographic maps. A large dataset of more than 2000 corneal topographies was used. Our results showed that Spherical Harmonics were superior with a RMSE mean lower than 2.5 microns with 36 coefficients (order 5) for normal corneas and lower than 5 microns for two diseases affecting the corneal shapes: keratoconus and Fuchs’ dystrophy.

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Hala Bouazizi, Isabelle Brunette, and Jean Meunier "Comparison of parametric methods for modeling corneal surfaces", Proc. SPIE 10133, Medical Imaging 2017: Image Processing, 101332E (24 February 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2254426

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