Dynamic sensing of human eye using a high speed camera

Abstract

The eye pressure is an important index for judging whether an eye suffers from glaucoma or not. Conventional eye pressure measurements provide us with meaningful data only under the assumption that all the subjects have the same eye stiffness. Our former work, however, says that the assumption is not valid. This work is an extended version. By combining both a high speed camera with 5000[fps] and an air puff supply system, the eye surface can be precisely tracked with respect to time. We introduce a new parameter, which is the displacement at a predetermined applied force. We found that the parameter can strongly emphasize the characteristic of the individual eye stiffness and keeps a high correlation with the measured external eye pressure, so called IOP (intraocular pressure).