Advanced research methods in visual psychophysics and optometry

Students achieved learning outcomes regarding perimetry, optical coherence tomography (OCT), management of low-vision patients, psychophysics of vision, and wave theory of image formation which correspond to the courses Optometry I and II (1100-2BO12, 1100-3BO21), Visual perception (1100-3BO15 ) and Introduction to Fourier optics (1100-4BW12)

Remote learning
Self-reading

The aim of the course is to present to students selected advanced measurement methods and imaging techniques used in scientific research in the field of optometry and psychophysics of vision.

1. Classification of research methods in medical and paramedical sciences

2. Advanced methods of measuring the visual field

3. The use of adaptive optics systems in the examination of the eye and vision

4. Reading speed as a diagnostic parameter in low vision

5. Confocal laser scanning microscopy

6. Nonlinear optical microscopy in the examination of eye tissues

- generation of the second harmonic in the examined tissues

- two-photon excitation in confocal fluorescence microscopy

7. Optical and visual measures of retinal image quality

8. Artificial intelligence in vision screening and therapy (topic to be developed independently by students)

9. Eye tracking

Basic manuals and articles:

1. Pablo Artal (editor) Handbook of Visual Optics, Volume II: Instrumentation and Vision Correction (Taylor & Francis - 2017).

2. Michael Kaschke, Karl-Heinz Donnerhacke, Michael Stefan Rill; Optical Devices in Ophthalmology and Optometry: Technology, Design Principles and Clinical Applications (John Wiley & Sons - 2013)

3. Legge, Gordon E.. Psychophysics of Reading in Normal and Low Vision (CRC Press - 2007).

4. Zhong-Lin Lu, Barbara Dosher. Visual Psychophysics: From Laboratory to Theory (MIT Press - 2013).

5. Rudolf F. Guthoff, Christophe Baudouin, Joachim Stave; Atlas of Confocal Laser Scanning In-vivo Microscopy in Ophthalmology. Principles and Applications in Diagnostic and Therapeutic Ophthalmology (Springer-Verlag - 2006).

6. Andrew T. Duchowski, Eye Tracking Methodology Theory and Practice (Springer - 2017, 3rd ed.). Free e-book at http://eprints.ukh.ac.id/id/eprint/255/1/2017_Book_EyeTrackingMethodology.pdf

7. https://issuu.com/eurotimes/docs/et_24-9__low_res

8. James Wolffsohn; Imaging tests in ophthalmology (Górnicki Wydawnictwo Medyczne - 2013)

9. M. Kowalczyk-Hernández, series of articles "Advanced tools of optometry and psychophysics of vision" in OPTYKA - a bimonthly magazine. Yearbook 2021, issues 1 - 6, yearbook 2022, issue 1 and 2 (http://gazeta-optyka.pl/index.php/o-nas/archiwum)

10. Andrzej Grzybowski (editor), Artificial Intelligence in Ophthalmology (Springer - 2021)

11. Josef F. Bille, C.F.H. Harner, and Frieder Lösel (Eds.) Aberration-Free Refractive Surgery: New Frontiers in Vision (2nd Edition, Springer 2003)

12. https://issuu.com/eurotimes/docs/et_24-9__low_res

Additionally, detailed source literature will be provided for each lecture.

After listening to the lecture and independently studying the recommended materials, the student

a) knows and understands to an advanced degree facts, theories and complex relationships between them regarding the issues listed in the "Full description" section

b) is able to independently plan his/her own lifelong learning and communicate with the community, justifying his/her position regarding advanced research methods in optometry and psychophysics of vision

c) is ready to cultivate and disseminate models of proper behavior both in and outside the work environment.

Written examination

They are not provided for this course