Continental-scale topographic profiles between 28.45° N and S latitudes acquired by the first flight of the Shuttle Laser Altimeter (SLA) experiment are used to evaluate the vertical accuracy of GTOPO30, a global digital elevation model with a grid spacing of approximately 1 km. GTOPO30 is a compilation of eight sources of elevation information, including raster and vector data sets. The mean a...

We measured the symmetry of phoria angles in six normal subjects. Subjects were selected on the basis of good visual acuity and stereopsis, normal binocular eye alignment and, apart from mild refraction errors, absence of ocular abnormalities. They were instructed to look at a word on a reading chart at 2 m distance. Each measurement consisted of five subsequent intervals of 5 s duration. Durin...

OBJECTIVE To determine the sensitivity and specificity of a new upright-supine test to differentiate skew deviation from trochlear nerve palsy and other causes of vertical strabismus in a large number of patients. METHODS The study consisted of 125 consecutive patients who sought treatment from January 1, 2008, through December 31, 2010, for vertical strabismus of various causes: skew deviati...

We studied the relation between vertical eye movements and binocular torsion in five subjects with dissociated vertical deviation (DVD). During trials, subject viewed a well illuminated Snellen letter chart, with both eyes uncovered during 4 seconds, Subsequently, DVD was induced by covering one eye during 4 seconds. Finally, both eyes were uncovered during 4 seconds. Several trials were record...

The authors examined vertical vergence in a 15-year-old girl with dissociated vertical deviation, a 6d` convergent strabismus, no binocular vision, latent nystagmus, and a minimal left amblyopia. Eye movements were recorded during 4s-periods of (1) both eyes open, alternated with 4s-periods of (2a) right eye covered, (2b) left eye covered or (2c) both eyes closed. The patient preferred fixation...

Harms tangent screen, a subjective measurement method of three-dimensional binocular alignment, was compared with search coil recording. Twenty-three patients with unilateral trochlear nerve palsy were measured in nine gaze positions. The two methods correlated best for the horizontal gaze deviation, the vertical gaze deviation, and the vertical incomitance, but there was no correlation for the...

This paper presents a study in an efficient methodology for analysis and characterization of digital images psoriasis lesions using Daubechies D8 wavelet technique. The methodology is based on the transformation of 2D Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) algorithm for Daubechies D8 at first level to obtain the coefficients of the approximations and details sub-images. For classification method, sta...