{"title":"The Temporal Characteristics of Eye Growth Control Mechanisms Differ Following Optic Nerve Section","authors":"D. Troilo, E. Francis, Glara Yi","doi":"10.1364/vsia.1997.sad.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/vsia.1997.sad.3","url":null,"abstract":"The visual control of eye growth and refractive development occurs on at least two levels, a peripheral mechanism local to the eye and retina, and a higher level mechanism possibly involving brain-mediated mechanisms. The loss of the higher level mechanism following optic nerve section results in (1) more rapid development of form deprivation myopia and (2) a reduction in the responsiveness of choroidal and axial growth responses to visual signals. These results suggest that the peripheral mechanism, while capable of responding to coarse visual stimuli, is normally modulated by the higher level mechanism.","PeriodicalId":428257,"journal":{"name":"Vision Science and its Applications","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114677105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. Fontaine, J. Gresset, H. Boisjoly, I. Brunette, M. Le François, J. Deschênes, R. Bazin, P. Laughrea, I. Dubé, M. Charest
{"title":"Relation between Self-Perceived Status of Visual Functioning (VF-14) and Indices of Functional Vision Derived from Visual Acuity Measurements","authors":"N. Fontaine, J. Gresset, H. Boisjoly, I. Brunette, M. Le François, J. Deschênes, R. Bazin, P. Laughrea, I. Dubé, M. Charest","doi":"10.1364/vsia.1998.sae.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/vsia.1998.sae.5","url":null,"abstract":"Many sources have advocated the use of indices of functional vision to measure the severity of visual impairment and their consequences on the quality of life. Different methods have been proposed. Traditional methods rely on monocular or binocular visual acuity (VA). The severity scale of impairment of the World Health Organisation1 is based on the best-eye VA and/or on the visual field. Other methods use various combinations of monocular VA (expressed as percentages) to calculate \"weighted binocular scores\", as proposed by the American Medical Association2 or Colenbrander3. A more recent approach, relies on the self-perceived status of visual functioning as measured by vision-related questionnaires. A variety of instruments have been devised to assess vision-targeted functional performance associated with visual impairment in subjects with cataract4-7. Of these, the Visual Functioning Index (VF-14) is one of the most widely used. The reliability, validity as well as the responsive ness of the VF-14 has been well documented in the case of cataract surgery7-10. In addition, this questionnaire has recently been validated for the evaluation of corneal and other ocular diseases11, 12","PeriodicalId":428257,"journal":{"name":"Vision Science and its Applications","volume":"278 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115425315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Representing corneal shape","authors":"S. A. Klein, R. Mandell, B. Barsky","doi":"10.1364/vsia.1995.fc2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/vsia.1995.fc2","url":null,"abstract":"The power and radius expressions that are commonly used for corneal topography measurements are frequently misinterpreted. There is no consensus for the most appropriate expression of corneal topography, perhaps due to bias in the measurement process and misunderstanding of what is being measured. Agreement is needed as to the most appropriate methods for expressing corneal shape independent of the available measurement methods. This is a worthwhile enterprise since corneal shape measurements are useful in such applications as diagnosing corneal abnormalities, refractive corneal surgery and contact lens design.","PeriodicalId":428257,"journal":{"name":"Vision Science and its Applications","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115433713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Effects of Cross-Spatial-Frequency Adaptation on Speed Discrimination","authors":"Yue Chen, H. Bedell, L. Frishman","doi":"10.1364/vsia.1996.sad.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/vsia.1996.sad.2","url":null,"abstract":"The coding of stimulus speed has been accepted to be an important component of motion processing in the visual system. How this coding is implemented, however, is still not entirely clear. In terms of its relationship with spatial and temporal contents of moving targets, speed processing is often modeled as a two-stage process (e.g. Heeger, 1990; Smith & Edgar, 1994). In the first stage, initial speed estimates are generated within individual spatial- and temporal-frequency-tuned mechanism. In the second stage, the outputs of multiple spatio-temporal frequency mechanisms from the first stage are combined to produce the speed codes that are then invariant with respect to spatial frequency. This descriptive model for speed coding makes sense from both functional and experimental perspectives. Functionally, speed coding in the visual system should not vary with respect to spatial frequency; otherwise, non-identical speed coding among spatial frequency mechanisms would perceptually make the different spatial frequency components of a single target appear to move incoherently. Experimentally, it has been demonstrated that whereas the responses of neurons at early stages, such as in VI, are spatial-frequency-tuned, the responses of some neurons at later stages, such as in MT, have broader spatial frequency bandwidths (Newsome, Gizzi & Movshon, 1983), which presumably represent the combination of inputs from several lower-level spatial frequency mechanisms.","PeriodicalId":428257,"journal":{"name":"Vision Science and its Applications","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124699535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluating the PAR Corneal Topography System: A Preliminary Study","authors":"R. Munger, E. Casson, W. B. Jackson","doi":"10.1364/vsia.1996.sub.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/vsia.1996.sub.4","url":null,"abstract":"In the last decade a number of new technologies have been developed that allow us to alter the shape of the cornea. The ultimate goal of these technique is to be able to reshape the corneal surface reliably and accurately and thus permanently correct most types of refractive errors and provide patients with optimum visual performance without corrective lenses. One of the barriers that has impeded the progress of these techniques has been the lack of a reliable and accurate description of the corneal surface before and after the reshaping of the cornea. Only with this knowledge can we begin correlating the optical properties of the cornea and the change in visual performance resulting from the surgery.","PeriodicalId":428257,"journal":{"name":"Vision Science and its Applications","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124904826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Eye-Movement Tracking Using Compressed Video Images","authors":"J. Mulligan, B. Beutter, Cynthia H. Hull","doi":"10.1364/vsia.1995.sae9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/vsia.1995.sae9","url":null,"abstract":"Infrared video cameras offer a simple noninvasive way to measure the position of the eyes using relatively inexpensive equipment. Several commercial systems are available which use special hardware to localize features in the image in real time; typically the pupil and the first Purkinje image (corneal reflex) are tracked, the difference between these two signals giving a measure of eye rotation which is relatively independent of head position. While these systems have the advantage of providing a result in real time, this speed is obtained at the cost of reduced resolution and accuracy. The limitation is not imposed by the information content of the video image, however, but rather by the complexity of the processing algorithms which can be implemented in current hardware. More accurate results can be obtained when the imagery is analyzed off-line using more complex algorithms implemented in software.","PeriodicalId":428257,"journal":{"name":"Vision Science and its Applications","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123663818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. López-Gil, B. Howland, Neil W. Charman, R. Applegate, H. Howland
{"title":"On the Generation of Spherical Aberration and Coma of Variable Magnitude","authors":"N. López-Gil, B. Howland, Neil W. Charman, R. Applegate, H. Howland","doi":"10.1364/vsia.1998.sub.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/vsia.1998.sub.4","url":null,"abstract":"With so much interest being shown on the monochromatic aberrations of the eye, it is perhaps remarkable that few have studied their effect on vision. Besides spherical aberration and astigmatism there are not many studies on the influence of the third and four order wave aberration in vision. Part of the reason for this must lie in the difficulty of first measuring the high order aberrations of the eye and, secondly, introducing monochromatic aberrations of known quantity into a system incorporating the human eye as a sensor.","PeriodicalId":428257,"journal":{"name":"Vision Science and its Applications","volume":"132 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124267131","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reading of Dynamically Displayed Text by Low Vision Observers","authors":"E. M. Fine, E. Peli, A. Labianca","doi":"10.1364/vsia.1995.sub4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/vsia.1995.sub4","url":null,"abstract":"When compared to the time required to read a normally displayed page of text, low vision observers read faster from a scroll display, in which the text is continuously panned across a computer screen (Legge et al., 1989). They also read faster from a rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) display in which each word is presented to the same place on a computer screen (Rubin & Turano, 1994). The views seen from the scroll display are similar to what would be seen when a magnifier or other low vision aid is scanned across a page of text. Readers with low vision are reported to read text displayed in this manner about 15% faster than a static page of text (Legge et al., 1989). As Legge et al. point out, this advantage may be due, in part, to the time saved because no return sweeps are needed to reposition the eyes at the beginning of the next line of text. This return sweep is time consuming for normally sighted observers (Rayner, 1978), and even more so for low vision observers who are known to have difficulty with eye movement control (cf. Peli, 1986; Whittaker et al., 1991). This advantage for scroll displays was not seen for normally sighted observers in Legge et al.'s study. In fact, they read 44% slower on average.","PeriodicalId":428257,"journal":{"name":"Vision Science and its Applications","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125183642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Generalized Image Processing Application for the Enhancement of Images for the Visually Impaired","authors":"Andrew Kennedy, S. Leat, M. Jernigan","doi":"10.1364/vsia.1998.sae.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/vsia.1998.sae.4","url":null,"abstract":"Research into digital image enhancement in the School of Optometry at the University of Waterloo and its effects on low vision subjects’ spatial perception has led to the creation of an image processing tool called ImageLab. This tool has been designed to provide image processing functions in a sufficiently general fashion to enable it to be used for research into the efficacy of various digital image enhancement effects in improving perception in people with low vision and with vision losses due to normal aging. This paper describes work currently in progress and a tool which provides functions of general interest to those in vision research. The tool and effects of different image processing algorithms on colour images are described.","PeriodicalId":428257,"journal":{"name":"Vision Science and its Applications","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125865486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Flicker Sensitivity in Patients with Retinitis Pigmentosa and Good Acuity","authors":"W. Swanson, M. Fiedelman, G. Fish","doi":"10.1364/vsia.1995.tua1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/vsia.1995.tua1","url":null,"abstract":"Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a retinal degeneration which can be produced by a large number of different genetic mutations. In the early stages rod photoreceptor function is more severely impaired than cone photoreceptor function, and the rate of degeneration is faster for rods than for cones. Although the end stage can be complete loss of light perception, visual acuity often remains relatively unaffected despite severe loss of peripheral visual function.","PeriodicalId":428257,"journal":{"name":"Vision Science and its Applications","volume":"107 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125901277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}