Abstract
Purpose :
A new lens-based head tracking feature for the HFA3 perimeter (ZEISS, Dublin, CA) can now automatically align the center of the patient’s pupil to the center of the lens (Figure 1) and continually reposition throughout the exam. The purpose of this study was to compare this prototype design to the original manual alignment and gaze monitoring method.
Methods :
Two HFA3 (Model 860, SW versions 1.4 and 1.5) systems, with the liquid trial lens, were used to test one eye of 18 healthy volunteers by taking three SITA Faster 24-2 exams in a randomized test order. On version 1.4 SW, the pupil was manually aligned to “+” camera center (CC) mark and manually estimated lens center (LC) while with the version 1.5 SW, pupil was automatically aligned (AA) to lens “+” mark during gaze initialization. Patient alignment time (Ta) was recorded from patient being comfortable at the instrument to successful gaze initialization during all exams. Fixation loss (FL) and blind spot location threshold (BS) data were recorded. Ta, FL and BSdata were analyzed and compared using ANOVA and Friedman’s tests.
Results :
Mean age for subjects was 41.5 years (SD: 9.9, range: 23-57). Average time with standard deviation for CC, LC and AA was 17.2 ± 3.7, 20.4 ± 4.7, and 12.8 ± 2.5 seconds respectively ( p<0.001). AA significantly reduced the average time by 25.6 % and 37% compared to CC and LC, respectively. Differences in FL and BS were determined not to be statistically significant among the methods (p>0.05). Visual inspection of individual gaze graphs showed minimal differences (Figure 2).
Conclusions :
In this preliminary study, patient alignment and gaze initialization time were significantly reduced using the lens-based head tracking method. Performance of gaze monitoring was comparable to the current commercial software based upon qualitative observations and the analysis of FL and BS results. The lens-based head tracking provides automated alignment and improved user interface with indicators for the lens center and the pupil center.
This abstract was presented at the 2019 ARVO Annual Meeting, held in Vancouver, Canada, April 28 - May 2, 2019.