Albert Khouri
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, USA
Title: Ophthalmic telemedicine and glaucoma management
Biography
Biography: Albert Khouri
Abstract
Ophthalmic telemedicine enhances screening for blinding diseases and brings subspecialty expertise to the community. Screening for glaucoma poses distinct diagnostic challenges. About half of glaucoma patients are unaware of their disease. Screening with IOP measurement, functional and structural testing has limitations. The presentation will discuss challenges to glaucoma diagnosis and potential solutions to glaucoma screening. Stereoscopic optic nerve imagingand hardware/software solutions can be applied during telemedicine in community outreach programs. Software-assisted optic nerve analysis, applications of digital filters in imaging (RGB separation, depth analysis), and real-time teleglaucoma screening are constantly evolving fields that have significant potential applications both in telemedicine and in direct clinical care of glaucoma patients.