Correction
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Eva Chadnova, Alexandre Reynaud, Simon Clavagnier, Robert F. Hess
Summary: An updated version of this paper has been published and is accessible through a link at the top of the original paper.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Achim Langenbucher, Nora Szentmary, Alan Cayless, Veronika Roeggla, Christina Leydolt, Jascha Wendelstein, Peter Hoffmann
Summary: This study analyzed the lateral differences in biometric measurements and their impact on lens power calculation when using fellow eye's data. The results showed that in 10% of cases, using fellow eye's biometry resulted in differences in lens power and predicted refraction.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
A. Sahakian, C. L. E. Paffen, S. van der Stigchel, S. Gayet
Summary: This study found that the visual hemifield location of stimuli affects interocular competition, with targets presented in the nasal visual hemifield breaking through suppression faster than those presented in the temporal visual hemifield. The nasal advantage is greater for the recessive eye and for observers with a greater dominance imbalance between the eyes, suggesting an adaptive role in human vision.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Benjamin Scholl, Clara Tepohl, Melissa A. Ryan, Connon Thomas, Naomi Kamasawa, David Fitzpatrick
Summary: This study investigates the synaptic interactions underlying the binocular representation of stimulus orientation in ferret visual cortex. The results show that the degree of interocular alignment in binocular inputs is related to their selectivity and somatic specificity, and the number of active congruent inputs predicts aligned somatic output.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Zhiqiang Zheng, Huaping Wang, Sinan Ozgun Demir, Qiang Huang, Toshio Fukuda, Metin Sitti
Summary: This paper proposes a single-step aniso-electrodeposition method for fabricating modular microrobots with diverse shape-morphing capabilities. The proposed fabrication method allows for loading cells, drugs, and magnetic nanoparticles to achieve multifunctionality.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Guihua Xu, Yijun Hu, Shanqing Zhu, Yunxiang Guo, Lu Xiong, Xuejun Fang, Jia Liu, Qingsong Zhang, Na Huang, Jin Zhou, Fangfang Li, Xiaohua Lei, Li Jiang, Zheng Wang
Summary: The study on Chinese myopic patients demonstrated significant interocular symmetry in corneal biometrics, particularly in anterior and posterior corneal curvatures, corneal diameter, corneal thickness, and corneal volume. This suggests strong interocular agreements in these corneal parameters, which is important for keratoconus diagnosis and corneal substitutes design.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Xinxin Du, Lijuan Liu, Xue Dong, Min Bao
Summary: Training in an altered-reality environment can reactivate ocular dominance plasticity and improve vision for amblyopia. The training reduces interocular suppression specific to amblyopia by rebalancing ocular dominance and weakening intermodulation response. This neural training effect can still be observed one month after the training ends, providing preliminary evidence for the disinhibition account in treating amblyopia.
ANNALS OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Ophthalmology
Ling Gong, Alexandre Reynaud, Robert F. Hess, Jiawei Zhou
Summary: The study found that after short-term monocular deprivation, the contrast sensitivity of the patched eye significantly increased under dichoptic masking, suggesting reduced suppressive effect from the nonpatched eye. Meanwhile, the contrast sensitivity of the nonpatched eye remained almost unchanged under dichoptic masking.
INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Fangxing Song, Lili Lyu, Min Bao
Summary: Previous research has observed that ocular dominance can be influenced by prolonged attention to one eye. The ocular-opponency-neuron model has been proposed as a potential explanation for this phenomenon, but direct neural evidence is still missing. This study used the steady-state visually evoked potentials (SSVEPs) to track the activities of ocular-opponency-neurons before and after dichoptic-backward-movie adaptation, and found that the adaptation caused a shift in both perceptual and neural ocular dominance towards the unattended eye. Furthermore, a decrease in the intermodulation SSVEP response was observed after adaptation, especially when high-contrast gratings were presented to the attended eye, providing strong support for the role of ocular-opponency-neuron adaptation in ocular dominance plasticity induced by prolonged eye-based attention.
NEUROSCIENCE BULLETIN
(2023)
Article
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Hiroki Ohata, Hideo Suganuma
Summary: The study reveals Abelian dominance and monopole dominance in the maximally Abelian gauge for the chiral condensate in the confinement phase, while chiral restoration is observed for the Abelian and monopole sectors in the high-temperature deconfined phase. The research also investigates the local correlation between the chiral condensate and monopoles, suggesting a possibility that the strong magnetic field around monopoles is responsible for chiral symmetry breaking in QCD, similar to magnetic catalysis.
Review
Ophthalmology
Tingting Song, Xuanchu Duan
Summary: Ocular dominance (OD) is a significant concept in optometry and refractive surgery that plays a crucial role in cataract surgery. OD is linked to the visual formation of the cerebral cortex and its plasticity suggests that visual experience can influence the visual system. This review summarizes the application of OD in cataract surgery based on its concept and mechanism.
GRAEFES ARCHIVE FOR CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL OPHTHALMOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Karolina Pietrowska, Diana Anna Dmuchowska, Adrian Godlewski, Emil Tomasz Grochowski, Malgorzata Wojnar, Wioleta Gosk, Joanna Konopinska, Adam Kretowski, Michal Ciborowski
Summary: The study aimed to quantitatively evaluate the symmetry in concentrations of different metabolites in aqueous humor. The comparison of both eyes revealed no significant differences in metabolite concentrations except for taurine. Most metabolites showed moderate-to-strong positive interocular correlation, indicating that a single eye could represent the fellow eye in terms of metabolite concentration.
FRONTIERS IN MOLECULAR BIOSCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Fangxing Song, Lili Lyu, Jiaxu Zhao, Min Bao
Summary: This study explores the aftereffects of prolonged attention on perceptual ocular dominance. It finds that prolonged attention can shift ocular dominance towards the unattended eye, and this aftereffect is positively correlated with neural activity advantage for the attended-eye over unattended-eye signals. The aftereffect disappears when interocular competition is minimized during adaptation.
Review
Neurosciences
Jianhua Cang, Jieming Fu, Seiji Tanabe
Summary: The brain integrates information from both eyes effortlessly and uses binocular disparity to construct depth information. Recent studies have advanced our understanding of the neural circuits underlying stereophysical vision and its development. However, there are unresolved controversies and significant knowledge gaps regarding ocular dominance, interocular matching, and response selectivity for binocular disparity. Future studies should focus on these areas to further our understanding of binocular integration in the early visual system.
FRONTIERS IN NEURAL CIRCUITS
(2023)
Article
Ophthalmology
Min-Su Kim, Hyung-Bin Lim, Woo-Hyuk Lee, Kyeung-Min Kim, Ki Yup Nam, Jung-Yeul Kim
Summary: The study found that in healthy individuals, bilateral choroidal thickness displayed symmetry in all regions, with differences increasing from the center to the periphery, especially in the nasal peripapillary and peripheral areas.
INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE
(2021)
Review
Ophthalmology
Muriel M. Schornack, Stephen J. Vincent, Maria K. Walker
Summary: Intraocular pressure (IOP) is regulated by complex systems and the use of scleral lenses (SLs) may disrupt these processes. This review examines the anatomical and physiological control of IOP, explores the potential effects of SLs on these mechanisms, and analyzes studies that have attempted to measure the impact of SLs on IOP. Accurate assessment of IOP during SL wear is challenging, but various techniques and instruments have been used to measure IOP before and after lens application, as well as on the peripheral cornea or conjunctiva overlying the sclera. Some conflicting results have been reported regarding changes in IOP during SL wear, particularly for short durations. Long-term effects of SL wear on IOP in habitual wearers are still under-researched. It is important to consider the impact of SLs on corneal biomechanical properties and monitor other risk factors for glaucoma in SL wearers.
CONTACT LENS & ANTERIOR EYE
(2023)
Article
Ophthalmology
Ranjay Chakraborty, Michael J. Collins, Henry Kricancic, Brett Davis, David Alonso-Caneiro, Fan Yi, Karthikeyan Baskaran
Summary: This study aimed to examine the effects of stimulation of intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs) on axial length changes in young adults. The study found that stimulation of ipRGCs using blue light caused an increase in axial length. However, this effect was not observed in myopic defocus conditions.
JOURNAL OF OPTOMETRY
(2023)
Article
Ophthalmology
Tabitha M. Scott BKin, Eugene R. Ting, Stephen J. Vincent, Graham A. Lee
Summary: This study reviewed the long-term outcomes of cyclodiode treatment in patients with refractory glaucoma. The results showed that cyclodiode can effectively reduce intraocular pressure and the need for medications in the long term, but complications such as hypotony and phthisis may occur.
CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL OPHTHALMOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Ophthalmology
Rebecca A. Cox, Scott A. Read, Shelley Hopkins, Joanne M. Wood
Summary: This study investigated the ocular biometry of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in Australia, finding differences in refractive error, lens power, central corneal thickness, and intraocular pressure compared to non-Indigenous children, which may have implications for the development of refractive error and ocular disease later in life.
CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL OPTOMETRY
(2023)
Article
Biology
Yoel F. Garcia-Marin, David Alonso-Caneiro, Damien Fisher, Stephen J. Vincent, Michael J. Collins
Summary: Anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT) is a fundamental ophthalmic imaging technique that can provide quantitative metrics for clinical decision making. In this study, a patch-based convolutional neural network (CNN) was used to accurately segment the cornea's boundaries. The performance of the model was assessed based on the number of classes and image quality, revealing comparable results to other established segmentation methods.
COMPUTERS IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
(2023)
Article
Ophthalmology
Dinesh Kaphle, Katrina L. Schmid, Marwan Suheimat, Scott A. Read, David A. Atchison
Summary: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between peripheral choroid thickness and eye length changes during accommodation. The results showed that eye length increased with accommodation, while the choroid thinned. The thinning of the choroid accounted for approximately 60% of the eye length increase.
OPHTHALMIC AND PHYSIOLOGICAL OPTICS
(2023)
Editorial Material
Ophthalmology
Stephen J. Vincent, Pauline Cho
CONTACT LENS & ANTERIOR EYE
(2023)
Article
Ophthalmology
Vyasa H. H. Bliss, Nathan Branjerdporn, Peng Jia Ooi, Li Mei Teo, Jervis Tu, Justin Yeh, Michael J. J. Collins, Stephen J. J. Vincent
Summary: The aim of this study was to compare the magnitude of corneal oedema induced following short-term reverse piggyback scleral lens wear and standard scleral lens wear. The results showed that the highly oxygen-permeable reverse piggyback system did not induce a clinically or statistically greater magnitude of central corneal oedema compared with standard scleral lens wear.
OPHTHALMIC AND PHYSIOLOGICAL OPTICS
(2023)
Article
Ophthalmology
Rohan P. J. Hughes, Scott A. Read, Michael J. Collins, Stephen J. Vincent
Summary: This study investigates the changes in higher order aberrations and retinal image quality during accommodation in children with different refractive errors. The results show that near work has a greater impact on myopic children, while non-myopic children show greater changes in spherical aberration during accommodation.
OPHTHALMIC AND PHYSIOLOGICAL OPTICS
(2023)
Article
Biochemical Research Methods
Rohan P. J. Hughes, Scott A. Read, Michael J. Collins, Stephen J. Vincent
Summary: This study examined anterior corneal, internal ocular, and total ocular higher order aberrations (HOA's), and retinal image quality in a non-myopic, paediatric cohort. The study found that internal ocular HOA's were higher in magnitude but partially compensated, resulting in reduced levels of HOA's and excellent retinal image quality. Weak correlations were observed between HOA's and age, sex, refractive error, and axial length. These findings provide an improved understanding of the optics and retinal image quality of children's eyes.
BIOMEDICAL OPTICS EXPRESS
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Pryntha Rajasingam, Alyra Shaw, Brett Davis, David Alonso-Caneiro, Jared Hamwood, Michael Collins
Summary: Ultraviolet autofluorescence imaging is a useful tool for detecting ocular surface changes caused by sunlight exposure. This study found that the presence of UVAF was associated with changes in tissue thickness, including thinner conjunctival epithelium and thicker sclera. Additionally, participants with only nasal UVAF had significantly thicker temporal conjunctival stroma. These findings highlight the potential of techniques such as tissue thickness measurement and UVAF photography in detecting early UV-related changes to the ocular surface.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2023)
Article
Ophthalmology
Asif Iqbal, Damien Fisher, David Alonso-Caneiro, Michael J. Collins, Stephen J. Vincent
Summary: This study quantified the magnitude of corneal edema induced by central and peripheral scleral lenses. The results showed that the levels of corneal edema increased with medium and high fluid reservoir thicknesses. The gradual increase in edema towards the limbus supports the theoretical model without limbal metabolic support.
OPHTHALMIC AND PHYSIOLOGICAL OPTICS
(2023)
Article
Ophthalmology
Shelley Hopkins, Scott A. Read, Rebecca A. Cox, Bright A. Oduro, Niall Strang, Joanne M. Wood
Summary: This study investigated the impact of clinically significant hyperopia on visual function in schoolchildren and compared the ability of different screening tests to detect it. Results showed significant differences in visual function between children with clinically significant hyperopia and those with emmetropia/low hyperopia. Combining measures of DVA and NVA and the difference in DVA through a plus lens demonstrated good discriminative ability for detecting clinically significant hyperopia.
OPHTHALMIC AND PHYSIOLOGICAL OPTICS
(2023)
Article
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Jason Kugelman, David Alonso-Caneiro, Scott A. Read, Stephen J. Vincent, Michael J. Collins
Summary: Training deep learning methods for OCT retinal and choroidal layer segmentation is challenging due to limited data availability and privacy concerns. This study proposes an enhanced StyleGAN2-based data augmentation method combined with semi-supervised learning using a novel cross-localisation technique. By incorporating styles from unlabelled data with labelled data, the method increases the diversity of synthetic data. Through optimization and targeted model selection, the method demonstrates improved performance in OCT retinal and choroidal layer segmentation.
COMPUTER VISION AND IMAGE UNDERSTANDING
(2023)
