Bilateral optic disc edema in a diabetic patient may be caused by diabetic papillopathy. We herein report on a patient with bilateral optic disc drusen simulating diabetic papillopathy. A 55-year-old patient with type 2 diabetes presented with decreased vision of 1-month. Diabetic papillopathy was initially considered as there was disc edema in both eyes with focal hemorrhages at the disc margi...

Purpose: To evaluate and compare optic nerve parameters of patients suspected of having glaucoma, specifically, those considered to have enlarged or “macro” optic discs defined as an overall area greater than 2.82 mm. Methods: Retrospective evaluation of 245 patients subjected to confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscopy by the Heidelberg Retinal Tomograph (Heidelberg Engineering, Dossenheim, Germ...

PURPOSE To compare the optic disc topography measurements from a digitized laser slit-lamp and a confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscope (SLO). METHODS Ten normal subjects (10 eyes) were recruited. Topographic measurements of the optic disc were performed three times in all eyes using the Retinal Thickness Analyzer (RTA) and the Heidelberg Retina Tomograph II (HRT II), and the mean values dete...

It has been demonstrated that shape, area and depth of the optic disc are relevant indices of diabetic retinopathy. In this paper, we present a new fundus optic disc localization and segmentation method based on phase congruency (PC). Firstly, in order to highlight the optic disc, channel images with the highest contrast between optic disc and background are selected in LAB, YUV, YIQ and HSV sp...

AIMS To assess optic disc characteristics in premature infants with and without ischaemic brain injury and to evaluate the role of optic disc morphology in dating the injury. METHODS RetCam fundal images, cranial ultrasounds and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of 109 premature infants were analysed. The study cohort was divided into subgroups depending on the presence or absence of periventr...

The aim of this paper is to compare the glaucoma diagnostic reliability of two optic disc parameters: the relative cup area size determined by the Heidelberg retina tomography and the relative pallor area size determined by the proposed algorithm of the optic disc image analysis. Both parameters were measured for 240 normal healthy eyes and 240 glaucomatous eyes. The diagnostic reliability of s...

AIM To compare the optic disc blood flow of non-arteritic ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION) eyes with normal eyes. METHODS The optic disc blood flow densities of diagnosed non-acute phase NAION eyes (21 eyes, 14 individuals) and normal eyes (19 eyes, 12 individuals) were detected via Optovue optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA). The optic disc blood flow was measured via Image J so...

OBJECTIVE Disc edge veins of Kraupa are a rare anomaly of the retinal venous system in which the main trunk of the retinal vein disappeared into the margin of the optic disc instead of its centre. METHODS A 40-year-old woman was detected to have an anomaly in her left optic disc in a routine eye examination. The eyes had an anomaly of the retinal venous system in which all branches of the ret...

Confocal Scanning Laser Tomography (CSLT) techniques capture high-quality images of the optic disc (the retinal region where the optic nerve exits the eye) that are used in the diagnosis and monitoring of glaucoma. We present a hybrid framework, combining image processing and data mining methods, to support the interpretation of CSLT optic nerve images. Our framework features (a) Zernike moment...