Database system for centralized clinical and research applications with data from wavefront aberrometers

• US 20060173644A1
• Filed: 01/12/2006
• Published: 08/03/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 01/13/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amo Manufacturing Usa, Llc (Johnson & Johnson)
• Original Assignee: VISX Incorporated
• Inventors: Chernyak, Dimitri, Yee, Kingman, Dai, Guangming
• Granted Patent: US 8,597,282 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/113
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 3/0025 characterised by electronic signal processing, e.g. eye models
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/50 for simulation or modelling of medical disorders
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass

Abstract

Computer systems, programs, and methods can advantageously be used to process optical data. These approaches often involve modifying a first format data to a second format data, and are useful in simplifying the complications due to data from different wavefront systems, different aberrometer devices and aberrometer software versions, different clinical studies and different measurement conditions. A centralized database system can be used effectively in a clinical research setting, which can be a medical center, a college, or a research department in a company, or in other diagnosis or treatment facilities.

Claims

1. A computer system for processing optical data, the computer system comprising:

a memory; and

a processor communicatively coupled with the memory, the processor configured to access optical data stored by the memory, the optical data comprising wavefront aberration data of a plurality of optics, the wavefront aberration data of at least one of the optics comprising a first format data, and the processor configured to modify the first format data to a second format data.

2. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the wavefront data further comprises a third format data, the processor configured to modify the third format data to second format data.

3. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the wavefront data further comprises second format data.

4. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the wavefront data comprises a plurality of additional format data different than first and second format data, the processor configured to modify at least one of the additional format data to second format data.

5. The computer system of claim 1, wherein at least one of the optics is selected from a group consisting of an eye, a cornea, a lens, and an optical system.

6. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the first format data comprises a Malacara coordinate system format data.

7. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the second format data comprises an Optical Society of America (OSA) standard format data.

8. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the memory comprises a database.

9. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the optical data further comprises a first optical coefficient indicating a first optical characteristic, and the processor is further configured to modify the first optical characteristic according to a second optical coefficient different from the first optical coefficient.

10. A computer apparatus for processing optical data, the computer apparatus comprising:

a memory configured to store optical data, the optical data comprising wavefront aberration data of a plurality of optics, a first optical characteristic of at least one of the optics comprising a first format data; and

a modification module comprising at least one of (i) a transformation module configured to transform the first format data to a second format data and (ii) a conversion module configured to convert the first format data to a second format data.

11. The computer apparatus of claim 10, further comprising a correlation module configured to correlate the first optical characteristic with a second optical characteristic.

12. The computer apparatus of claim 10, further comprising a reporting module configured to provide statistical analysis of the optical data.

13. The computer apparatus of claim 12, wherein the reporting module is communicatively coupled with the memory via at least one of an Open DataBase Connectivity (ODBC) and a Java DataBase Connectivity (JDBC).

14. The computer apparatus of claim 10, further comprising an administration module configured to maintain a copy of the memory.

15. The computer apparatus of claim 10, further comprising a data pulling component configured to cache optical data from the memory.

16. The computer apparatus of claim 10, further comprising an inputting module configured to input optical data into the memory.

17. The computer apparatus of claim 10, wherein the memory comprises a database.

18. A method for determining an optical treatment shape, the method comprising:

accessing optical data for a first optic, the first optic optical data comprising wavefront aberration data in a first data format;

accessing optical data for a second optic, the second optic optical data comprising (i) wavefront aberration data in a second data format, and (ii) clinical data;

modifying the second optic wavefront aberration data to the first data format; and

determining an optical treatment shape for the first optic based on the second optic clinical data and a comparison between the first and second optic wavefront aberration data in the first data format.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the first format data comprises a Malacara coordinate system format data.

20. The method of claim 18, wherein the second format data comprises an Optical Society of America (OSA) standard format data.