About the Authors

Ahmed Abass

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

A.Abass@liverpool.ac.uk

Affiliation University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Samantha Stuart

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Bernardo T. Lopes

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, The Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Dong Zhou

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Brendan Geraghty

Roles Visualization

Affiliation University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Richard Wu

Roles Data curation, Visualization

Affiliations Central Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taichung, Taiwan, Pacific University, College of Optometry, Forest Grove, Oregon, United Sates of America

Steve Jones

Roles Visualization

Affiliation University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Ilse Flux

Roles Data curation, Visualization

Affiliation Eaglet Eye B.V., Houten, The Netherlands

Reinier Stortelder

Roles Data curation, Visualization

Affiliation Eaglet Eye B.V., Houten, The Netherlands

Arnoud Snepvangers

Roles Data curation, Visualization

Affiliation Eaglet Eye B.V., Houten, The Netherlands

Renato Leca

Roles Visualization

Affiliations The Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, Faculdade de Medicina do ABC (FMABC), São Paulo, Brazil

Ahmed Elsheikh

Roles Supervision

Affiliations University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London, United Kingdom, School of Biological Science and Biomedical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: AA was a paid employee of an Innovate UK Knowledge Transfer Partnership Programme Grant till November 2017. AS, CEO of Eaglet Eye BV, and both IF and RS, the clinicians in Eaglet Eye BV, may use the figures in this manuscript to improve the performance of the Eye Surface Profiler (ESP). All other authors declare no potential financial or non-financial competing interests including employment, consultancy, patents, products in development, or marketed products. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.