Abstract
In this article, I/We report a novel eye-movement assessment method
using a digital camera to measure eye conjugacy in healthy individuals
while performing a neurological examination. This is clinically
significant because this approach overcomes the limitations of complex
and expensive setups (e.g., infrared cameras) that often make it
impractical to scale up and translate to clinical use. Moreover, this
approach removes the need for a calibration procedure which has caused
prior studies to exclude participants, potentially introducing selection
bias and limiting generalizability. Our study suggests that this
technology could be deployed for clinical use in the clinic or
pre-hospital setting, including telemedicine or emergency medical
services (EMS) encounters to detect neurological injury or diseases that
cause neuro-ocular deficits, like stroke.