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Abstract In a previous study, we identified biocular asymmetries in fundus photographs, and macula was discriminative area to distinguish left and right fundus images with > 99.9% accuracy. The purposes of this study were to investigate whether optical coherence tomography (OCT) images of the left and right eyes could be discriminated by convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and to support the previous result. We used a total of 129,546 OCT images. CNNs identified right and left horizontal images with high accuracy (99.50%). Even after flipping the left images, all of the CNNs were capable of discriminating them (DenseNet121: 90.33%, ResNet50: 88.20%, VGG19: 92.68%). The classification accuracy results were similar for the right and left flipped images (90.24% vs. 90.33%, respectively; p = 0.756). The CNNs also differentiated right and left vertical images (86.57%). In all cases, the discriminatory ability of the CNNs yielded a significant p value (

Abstract Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a noninvasive method that can quickly and accurately examine the eye at the cellular level. Several studies have used OCT for analysis of anterior chamber cells. However, these studies have several limitations. This study was performed to supplement existing reports of automated analysis of anterior chamber cell images using spectral domain OCT (SD-OCT) and to compare this method with the Standardization of Uveitis Nomenclature (SUN) grading system. We analyzed 2398 anterior segment SD-OCT images from 34 patients using code written in Python. Cell density, size, and eccentricity were measured automatically. Increases in SUN grade were associated with significant cell density increases at all stages (p

Patients with congenital ocular motor apraxia (OMA) typically show head thrusts while attempting to shift gaze. In congenital OMA, this compensatory head motion mostly occurs in the horizontal plane. Two patients with acquired palsy of voluntary vertical gaze and continuous upward gaze deviation, one from aortic surgery and the other from multiple infarctions involving the mesodiencephalic junction, showed intermittent downward head thrusting to redirect the eyes straight ahead or downward. The head thrusting behavior improved markedly after surgical correction of the upward gaze deviation in one patient. Vertical head thrusting may be a characteristic sign of acquired vertical gaze palsy when combined with vertical gaze deviation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]