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ArticlePloS one2025

Evaluation of keratometric and total corneal astigmatism measurements from optical biometers and anterior segment tomographers and mapping to reconstructed corneal astigmatism vector components.

Achim Langenbucher, Nóra Szentmáry, Alan Cayless, Peter Hoffmann, Jascha Wendelstein, Seth Pantanelli

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Achim LangenbucherDepartment of Experimental Ophthalmology, Saarland University, Homburg/Saar, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-9175-6177
Nóra SzentmáryDr. Rolf M. Schwiete Center for Limbal Stem Cell and Aniridia Research, Saarland University, Homburg/Saar, Germany.
Alan CaylessSchool of Physical Sciences, The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-0779-7449
Peter HoffmannAugen- und Laserklinik Castrop-Rauxel, Castrop-Rauxel, Germany.
Jascha WendelsteinDepartment of Experimental Ophthalmology, Saarland University, Homburg/Saar, Germany.
Seth PantanelliDepartment of Ophthalmology, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA, United States of America.

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purposeTo investigate different measures for corneal astigmatism in the context of reconstructed corneal astigmatism (recCP) as required to correct the pseudophakic eye, and to derive prediction models to map measured corneal astigmatism to recCP.

methodsRetrospective single centre study of 509 eyes of 509 cataract patients with monofocal (MX60P) IOL. Corneal power measured with the IOLMaster 700 keratometry (IOLMK), and Galilei G4 keratometry (GK), total corneal power (TCP2), and Alpin's integrated front (CorT) and total corneal power (CorTTP). Feedforward shallow neural network (NET) and linear regression (REG) prediction models were derived to map the measured C0 and C45 power vector components to the respective recCP components.

resultsBoth the NET and REG models showed superior performance compared to a constant model correcting the centroid error. The mean squared prediction errors for the NET/REG models were: 0.21/0.33 dpt for IOLMK, 0.23/0.36 dpt for GK, 0.24/0.35 for TCP2, 0.23/0.39 dpt for CorT and 0.22/0.36 dpt for CorTTP respectively (training data) and 0.27/0.37 dpt for IOLMK, 0.26/0.37 dpt for GK, 0.38/0.42 dpt for TCP2, 0.35/0.36 dpt for CorT, and 0.44/0.45 dpt for CorTTP respectively on the test data. Crossvalidation with model optimisation on the training (and validation) data and performance check on the test data showed a slight overfitting especially with the NET models.

conclusionsMeasurement modalities for corneal astigmatism do not yield consistent results. On training data the NET models performed systematically better, but on the test data REG showed similar performance to NET with the advantage of easier implementation.

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AstigmatismCorneaAgedAnterior Eye SegmentBiometryCataractFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedRetrospective Studies

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