title: Quantitative chamber angle measurement utilizing image-processing techniques.
abstract: An image-processing technique was applied to the measurement of the anterior chamber angle. The anterior eye segment was documented by a new instrument, named anterior eye segment analysis system for biometry of the anterior eye segment. The approximated curve of the corneal posterior curvature and the line tangent to the anterior surface of the iris were calculated as the anterior chamber angle. The mean error of the reproducibility of repeated measurements for the same image was 1.6 +/- 0.81% and that of 3 images of the same eye which were taken at 3 different times was within 5.2%.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Kanazawa Medical University, Ishikawa, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shibata
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sasaki
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sakamoto
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Takahashi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000867:Anterior Chamber / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D000869:Anterior Eye Segment / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D005902:Glaucoma, Open-Angle / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010781:Photography; D015203:Reproducibility of Results