Abstract: There is described a method for assessing a condition of a patient's eye. The method generally has: illuminating the patient's eye with a slit illumination beam from a first viewpoint; during said illuminating, imaging the patient's eye from a second viewpoint different from the first viewpoint, said imaging including generating a first image showing a first line element indicative of a reflection of the slit illumination beam on an iris of the patient's eye and a second line element indicative of a reflection of the slit illumination beam within a cornea of the patient's eye; fitting first and second lines to the first and second line elements; identifying a first intersection thereof; determining an angle value indicative of an angle between the first and second lines at the first intersection; and assessing the condition of the patient's eye based on the angle value.

Abstract: There is described a slit lamp system for imaging an eye of a patient. The slit lamp system generally having: a frame; an illumination source assembly mounted to said frame and adapted to illuminate said eye of said patient into one or more illumination patterns; a binocular imaging assembly mounted to said frame and adapted to image said eye of said patient during said illuminating, said imaging including forming two eye imaging paths transversally spaced-apart from one another and leading away from said frame; and a mounting bracket mounted to said binocular imaging assembly and having two transversally spaced-apart camera receivers, each camera receiver being adapted to receive a corresponding camera for simultaneously capturing two images from said two eye imaging paths.

Abstract: There is described an automated slit lamp system for imaging an eye of a patient. The automated slit lamp system generally has: an illuminator emitting an illumination beam towards the eye of the patient during examination, the illuminator being operable to illuminate the eye of the patient in different illumination patterns; a controller communicatively coupled to the illuminator, the controller controlling the illuminator to automatically illuminate the eye of the patient with a sequence of illumination patterns comprising at least a first illumination pattern and a second illumination pattern being different from the first illumination pattern, the first and second illumination patterns being selected from a group comprising: diffuse illumination, direct focal illumination, tangential illumination, retroillumination, indirect illumination and sclerotic scatter illumination; and a camera generating images of the eye during both the first and second illumination patterns.