title: Digital measurement of pallor-disc ratio.
abstract: In an effort to quantitate optic nerve head pallor, a method has been devised to measure pallor-disc ratio using optic nerve head photographs. After electronically scanning photographs through various Wratten filters, it was observed that a red filter produces good contrast between the disc and the retinal surface, while a green filter produces good contrast between the pale area of the disc and the remaining normal-appearing nerve head. A computer program fitted an elliptical form to both the disc region of red image and the pale area of green image. Pallor-disc ratios were calculated on both area and radial bases. Reproducibility of 3.5% for the area ratios and 7% for the radial ratios were obtained.
mesh_terms: D003201:Computers; D005654:Fundus Oculi; D005901:Glaucoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D009898:Optic Disk; D010781:Photography / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*