Ocular Imaging for Eye Care

Dear colleagues,

As we are still in the middle of an ongoing pandemic, the need for fast, inexpensive, and robust medical technology is now more present than ever. Ocular imaging is an integral part of the ophthalmic examination and is necessary for many clinical aspects in eye care.

The recent advances in imaging technologies and information processing have extended their applicability to eye care in continuous growth. The combination of several factors, such as multimodality, high-speed, high-resolution, 3D scanning, wide-field, in-vivo biometry, anterior and posterior eye examination, along with the development of smart sensors and innovative image analysis algorithms have provided physicians with new and powerful tools for diagnosis, understanding, screening and enhanced monitoring of a wide range of eye disorders. Other techniques such as on-bench optical simulation and testing, artificial intelligence, and deep learning contribute with added values to meet the emerging challenges in early diagnosis, treatment monitoring, and disease progression prediction. Many advanced imaging techniques, limited in the past to laboratory-based research methods, have already expanded the clinical abilities, but their potential still deserves to be explored. This Special Issue aims to show the progress in (but not limited to) the following ocular imaging technologies with applications to eye care, ranging from the tear film and the cornea to the retina:

• Optical coherent tomography (OCT) to image both anterior and posterior eye structures;
• Enface OCT, OCT-Angiography;
• Imaging during ocular surgery;
• Adaptive optics in ocular imaging;
• Imaging and measuring in the eye: Multimodal imaging, ocular biometry, Scheimpflug imaging, corneal endothelial specular microscopy, (ultra)-wide field retinal imaging, scanning laser ophthalmoscopy, mydriatic and non-mydriatic retinal cameras, machine learning techniques and artificial intelligence applied to pattern recognition, image classification and ocular assessment.

Prof. Dr. Maria Millan
Dr. Andres G. Marrugo
Guest Editors

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