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ArticleInternational ophthalmology2022

Age norms for grating acuity and contrast sensitivity in children using eye tracking technology.

E Esteban-Ibañez, T Pérez-Roche, E Prieto, O Castillo, A Fanlo-Zarazaga, A Alejandre, D Gutierrez, M Ortin, V Pueyo

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E Esteban-IbañezAragon Institute for Health Research (IIS Aragón), Zaragoza, Spain.
T Pérez-RocheAragon Institute for Health Research (IIS Aragón), Zaragoza, Spain. teyeroche@hotmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3739-8473
E PrietoAragon Institute for Health Research (IIS Aragón), Zaragoza, Spain.
O CastilloAragon Institute for Health Research (IIS Aragón), Zaragoza, Spain.
A Fanlo-ZarazagaAragon Institute for Health Research (IIS Aragón), Zaragoza, Spain.
A AlejandreI3A Institute for Research in Engineering, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain.
D GutierrezI3A Institute for Research in Engineering, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain.
M OrtinDive Medical SL, Zaragoza, Spain.
V PueyoAragon Institute for Health Research (IIS Aragón), Zaragoza, Spain.
Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet · ESUniversidad de Zaragoza · ESInstituto de Investigación Sanitaria Aragón · ESZaragoza Logistics Center · ES

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Instituto de Salud Carlos III RD12/0026.
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Abstract

key messagesVisual acuity is the most used method to assess visual function in children. Contrast sensitivity complements the information provided for visual acuity, but it is not commonly used in clinical practice. Digital devices are increasingly used as a method to evaluate visual function, due to multiple advantages. Testing with these devices can improve the evaluation of visual development in children from a few months of age. Visual acuity and contrast sensitivity tests, using eye tracking technology, are able to measure visual function in children across a wide range of ages, objectively, quickly and without need of an experienced examiner. PURPOSE: To report age-normative values for grating visual acuity and contrast sensitivity in healthy children using a digital device with eye tracking technology and to validate the grating acuity test.

methodsIn the first project of the study, we examined healthy children aged between 6 months and 7 years with normal ophthalmological assessment. Grating visual acuity (VA) and contrast sensitivity (CS) were assessed using a preferential gaze paradigm with a DIVE (Device for an Integral Visual Examination) assisted with eye tracking technology to provide age norms. For the validation project, we compared LEA grating test (LGT) with DIVE VA in a group of children aged between 6 months and 4 years with normal and abnormal visual development.

resultsFifty-seven children (2.86 ± 1.55 years) were examined with DIVE VA test and 44 successfully completed DIVE CS test (3.06 ± 1.41 years). Both, VA and CS values increased with age, mainly along the first two years of life. Sixty-nine patients (1.34 ± 0.61 years) were included in the DIVE VA test validation. The mean difference between LGT and DIVE VA was - 1.05 ± 4.54 cpd with 95% limits of agreement (LoA) of - 9.95-7.84 cpd. Agreement between the two tests was higher in children younger than 1 year with a mean difference of - 0.19 ± 4.02 cpd.

conclusionsDIVE is an automatic, objective and reliable tool to assess several visual function parameters in children, and it has good agreement with classical VA tests, especially for the first stage of life.

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Contrast SensitivityOphthalmologyChildEye-Tracking TechnologyHumansInfantVision TestsVisual AcuityChildhoodContrast sensitivityEye trackingVisual acuityVisual development

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