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FOVEA: a new program to standardize the measurement of foveal pit morphology.

Bret A Moore, Innfarn Yoo, Luke P Tyrrell, Bedrich Benes, Esteban Fernandez-Juricic

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Wide-based foveal pit: a predisposition to idiopathic epiretinal membrane.Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie · 2021
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  3. Shape Decomposition of Foveal Pit Morphology using Scan Geometry Corrected OCT.Ophthalmic medical image analysis : 6th International Workshop, OMIA 2019, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2019, Shenzhen, China, October 17, Proceedings. OMIA (Workshop) (6th : 2019 : Shenzhen Shi, China) · 2019
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  5. A sloped piecemeal Gaussian model for characterising foveal pit shape.Ophthalmic & physiological optics : the journal of the British College of Ophthalmic Opticians (Optometrists) · 2016
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Bret A MooreDepartment of Biological Sciences, Purdue University , West Lafayette, IN , USA.
Innfarn YooDepartment of Computer Graphics Technology, Purdue University , West Lafayette, IN , USA.
Luke P TyrrellDepartment of Biological Sciences, Purdue University , West Lafayette, IN , USA.
Bedrich BenesDepartment of Computer Graphics Technology, Purdue University , West Lafayette, IN , USA.
Esteban Fernandez-JuricicDepartment of Biological Sciences, Purdue University , West Lafayette, IN , USA.

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Abstract

The fovea is one of the most studied retinal specializations in vertebrates, which consists of an invagination of the retinal tissue with high packing of cone photoreceptors, leading to high visual resolution. Between species, foveae differ morphologically in the depth and width of the foveal pit and the steepness of the foveal walls, which could influence visual perception. However, there is no standardized methodology to measure the contour of the foveal pit across species. We present here FOVEA, a program for the quantification of foveal parameters (width, depth, slope of foveal pit) using images from histological cross-sections or optical coherence tomography (OCT). FOVEA is based on a new algorithm to detect the inner retina contour based on the color variation of the image. We evaluated FOVEA by comparing the fovea morphology of two Passerine birds based on histological cross-sections and its performance with data from previously published OCT images. FOVEA detected differences between species and its output was not significantly different from previous estimates using OCT software. FOVEA can be used for comparative studies to better understand the evolution of the fovea morphology in vertebrates as well as for diagnostic purposes in veterinary pathology. FOVEA is freely available for academic use and can be downloaded at: http://estebanfj.bio.purdue.edu/fovea.

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