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- The study assesses the variability of Zernike corneal surface fit parameters using bootstrapping on Casia2 biometric data from 6,953 cataract patients.
- The methodology involved fitting a Zernike polynomial to the biometric data, bootstrapping the fit errors, and analyzing surface parameters such as radius and asphericity.
- Results indicated that the corneal back surface had greater variability in fit parameters compared to the front surface, suggesting a need for further research to verify these findings under repeated measurements.
Article Abstract
Background: This study uses bootstrapping to evaluate the technical variability (in terms of model parameter variation) of Zernike corneal surface fit parameters based on Casia2 biometric data.
Methods: Using a dataset containing N = 6953 Casia2 biometric measurements from a cataractous population, a Fringe Zernike polynomial surface of radial degree 10 (36 components) was fitted to the height data. The fit error (height - reconstruction) was bootstrapped 100 times after normalisation. After reversal of normalisation, the bootstrapped fit errors were added to the reconstructed height, and characteristic surface parameters (flat/steep axis, radii, and asphericities in both axes) extracted. The median parameters refer to a robust surface representation for later estimates of elevation, whereas the SD of the 100 bootstraps refers to the variability of the surface fit.
Results: Bootstrapping gave median radius and asphericity values of 7.74/7.68 mm and -0.20/-0.24 for the corneal front surface in the flat/steep meridian and 6.52/6.37 mm and -0.22/-0.31 for the corneal back surface. The respective SD values for the 100 bootstraps were 0.0032/0.0028 mm and 0.0093/0.0082 for the front and 0.0126/0.0115 mm and 0.0366/0.0312 for the back surface. The uncertainties for the back surface are systematically larger as compared to the uncertainties of the front surface.
Conclusion: As measured with the Casia2 tomographer, the fit parameters for the corneal back surface exhibit a larger degree of variability compared with those for the front surface. Further studies are needed to show whether these uncertainties are representative for the situation where actual repeat measurements are possible.
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