Teng, Bettina

This investigation presents a method to quantify the progression of different glaucomatous visual field defects detected in 4 patients with chronic open-angle glaucoma using linear algebra. The patients were followed an average of 4.03 years after developing monocular field loss. Either the left or right eye or both eyes showed progression in field changes. For instance, in patient 2, the presenting left eye had severe vision field loss with a greater progression of deterioration than the right eye. Based on standard automated perimetry using a Humphrey’s Visual Field and Frequency Doubling Technology, a dimensional matrix was created to allow physicians to predict the patient’s future visual field, making these matrices translatable to any process in medicine that can be expressed as a linear map. Future studies can answer questions, such as when the optimal time would be for a patient with glaucoma to transition from medicated eye drops to surgery.