Image Metrics for Predicting Subjective Image Quality

• Published in: Optometry and vision science Vol. 82; no. 5; pp. 358 - 369
• Main Authors: CHEN, LI, SINGER, BEN, GUIRAO, ANTONIO, PORTER, JASON, WILLIAMS, DAVID R.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hagerstown, MD Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 01.05.2005
• Subjects: Biological and medical sciences; Humans; Investigative techniques of ocular function and vision; Investigative techniques, diagnostic techniques (general aspects); Medical sciences; Ocular Physiological Phenomena; Optometry - methods; Refraction, Ocular - physiology; Vision Tests; Visual Acuity - physiology; Human; Refraction; Prediction; wave aberration; Image; Wave; Image quality; Visual system; Visual performance; Metric; Adaptive optics; subjective refraction; Ophthalmology

Despite the proliferation of wavefront sensors to characterize the optical quality of individual eyes, there is not yet an accurate way to determine from a wave aberration how severely it will impact the patient's vision. Some of the most commonly used metrics, such as RMS wavefront error and t...