Background Currently, there is limited knowledge about the genetics underlying pigmentary traits in East Asian populations. Here, we report the results of the first genome-wide association study of pigmentary traits (skin and iris color) in individuals of East Asian ancestry. Methods We obtained quantitative skin pigmentation measures (M-index) in the inner upper arm of the participants using...

BACKGROUND Individual differences of mink, including color type, are speculated to affect the course of wound healing, thereby impacting wound assessment and management on the farms, as well as the assessment of wounds in forensic cases. In this study, we examined the effect of color type on early wound healing in farmed mink. Full thickness excisional wounds (2 × 2 cm) were made on the back in...

PURPOSE To examine the associations between iris surface features with anterior chamber angle width in Asian eyes. METHODS In this prospective cross-sectional study, we recruited 600 subjects from a large population-based study, the Singapore Epidemiology of Eye Diseases (SEED) study. We obtained standardized digital slit-lamp iris photographs and graded the iris crypts (by number and size), ...

In recent years many authors have recognized that the path forward, regarding iris recognition, is the development of iris recognition systems that can work independently of the conditions under which iris images are acquired. Recent works have tried to achieve robust and unconstrained iris recognition in order to develop real-world applicable methods. In this work, the problem of unconstrained...

This paper proposes a computationally efficient eyelid detection algorithm for detecting eyelid boundaries in iris images acquired under less constrained imaging conditions. The proposed eyelid detection algorithm is developed based on the live-wire technique. The major advantage of the proposed algorithm is its computational simplicity as compared to the prior eyelid detection algorithms. The ...

PURPOSE To describe the effects of ethnicity and iris color on measurement of retinal vascular caliber. METHODS The Sydney Childhood Eye Study (SCES) examined 1740 6-year-old children from 34 randomly selected Sydney schools during 2003 and 2004. Retinal arteriolar and venular calibers (central retinal arteriolar [CRAE] and central retinal venular [CRVE] equivalents) were measured from retina...

Bilateral acute depigmentation of the iris (BADI) is a new clinical entity of unknown etiology and is characterized by bilateral, symmetrical, and simultaneous depigmentation of the iris with focal or diffuse stromal atrophy; this condition generally has a good prognosis. We present a case of a 26-year-old woman who noted a spontaneous change in the iris color in both eyes in the last 2 months....

To determine whether and how common polymorphisms are associated with natural distributions of iris colors, we surveyed 851 individuals of mainly European descent at 335 SNP loci in 13 pigmentation genes and 419 other SNPs distributed throughout the genome and known or thought to be informative for certain elements of population structure. We identified numerous SNPs, haplotypes, and diplotypes...

De-duplication of biometrics is not scalable when the number of people to be enrolled into the biometric system runs into billions, while creating a unique identity for every person. In this paper, we propose an iris classification based on sparse representation of log-gabor wavelet features using on-line dictionary learning (ODL) for large-scale de-duplication applications. Three different iri...

The iris (Fig. 1) is a protected internal organ behind the cornea which gives color to the eye [1]. Ophthalmologists Flom and Safir first noted that the iris is very unique for each person and remains unchanged after the first year of human life [3]. For each person, the left eye is distinctive from the right eye [3]. In 1987, they described a manual approach for iris recognition based on visib...