Evaluating pupillary responses to light stimuli

A system for evaluating the pupillary responses of a patient, the system comprising:

• at least one light source for alternately exposing a first eye and a second eye, respectively, to light stimulation in successive intervals;
• at least one image capturing device for concurrently capturing image data of the first eye and the second eye, respectively;
• an image manipulation system including:
• a component configured to determine a center point of the first eye within the image data of the first eye and a center point of the second eye within the image data of the second eye;
• a component configured to obtain image data of a first half of the first eye having an edge defined by a line of pixels intersecting the determined center point of the first eye;
• a component configured to obtain image data of a second half of the second eye, the second half of the second eye opposing the first half of the first eye and having an edge defined by a line of pixels intersecting the determined center point of the second eye;
• a component configured to create a composite image including the image data of the first half of the first eye and the image data of the second half of the second eye;
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• a component configured to provide the composite image for evaluation.

A method of evaluating the pupillary responses of a patient, the method comprising:

• alternately exposing a first eye and a second eye of the patient to light stimulation in successive intervals, the light stimulation provided by light sources controlled by at least one computing device;
• concurrently capturing, with an image device controlled by the at least one computing device, image data of the first eye and the second eye during the exposing;
• and
• using the at least one computing device to perform the following:
• convert the image data of the first eye and the second eye to binarized images of the first eye and the second eye that separate an pupil portion from a non-pupil portion;
• determine a center point of the first eye within the image data of the first eye and a center point of the second eye within the image data of the second eye;
• obtain image data of a first half of the first eye having an edge defined by a line of pixels intersecting the determined center point of the first eye;
• obtain image data of a second half of a second eye, the second half of the second eye opposing the first half of the first eye and having an edge defined by a line of pixels intersecting the determined center point of the second eye;
• create a composite image including the image data of the first half of the first eye and the image data of the second half of the second eye;
• and
• provide the composite image for evaluation.