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The research group in Multidisciplinary Engineering and UPCT Security has been awarded at the 25th International Congress of Engineering Graphics to develop a graphical tool that helps ophthalmologists to diagnose keratoconus, a rare disease that affects the cornea and It generates a progressive loss of vision in the patient, even to cause blindness.
In research 'Virtual Biomodelling of a biological structure: the human cornea', involves researchers from the University of Murcia and the eye clinic Vissum.
The results will be published in a journal with impact JCR dedicated to quality publications in the field of engineering.
The group's director in Multidisciplinary Engineering and Security, Jose Nieto, says the research is characterized by the application of graphical tools currently used to design domes or boat hulls to the specific case of the human eye.
"We generate a point cloud with real geometry and geometric tools reconstructed by computer-aided design the actual surface of the cornea.
This way you can detect imperfections that affect it, "says professor of Graphic Expression UPCT Francisco Cavas.
This project is being developed within the scope of the modeling of biological structures.
The study is part of the doctoral thesis of Professor Francisco Cavas and with him involved teachers of the department of Graphic Expression UPCT Jose Nieto, Francisco J. Fernandez and Daniel Garcia;
as well as teaching at the University of Murcia, Ernesto de la Cruz, and Vissum, located in Alicante, and directed by Professor of ophthalmology at the University Miguel Hernandez Jorge Alio.
This research is being carried out for a year and a half.
Teachers participating in it say they have developed the tool "is able to diagnose the disease almost 100%.
Note that is not an exclusive tool but can be used with other existing techniques in the field of ophthalmology diagnosis, "says Cava.
Keratoconus is a rare disease called.
Affects the cornea and, according to data provided by researchers, only 2,000 cases occur per 100,000 inhabitants.
The team received the award for the best paper at the XXV International Conference on Grafphics Engineering (International Congress Graphic Engineering) organized by the Spanish Association of Graphic Engineering, the Italian Association of Machine Design and the French Association AIP-Primeca.
Source: UPCT
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