1Department of Optometry, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Manipal, Karnataka, India

2Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Manipal, Karnataka, India

3Blackfrog Technologies Pvt Ltd, Manipal, Karnataka, India

4School of Optometry, College of Health and Life Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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Submitted: April 4, 2023

Accepted: January 26, 2024

Funding/Support: None of the authors have reported funding/support.

Conflict of Interest Disclosure: None of the authors have reported a financial conflict of interest.

Study Registration Information: The study was approved by the Institutional Animal Ethics Committee meeting, KMC Manipal, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (no. IAEC/KMC/20/2017).

Author Contributions and Acknowledgments: Conceptualization: SKK, RSV, DDS, MS; Data Curation: SKK, SMS; Formal Analysis: SKK, SB; Investigation: SKK, DDS, MUS; Methodology: SKK, SMS, SB; Project Administration: SKK, SMS; Resources: SMS, RSV, DDS, MUS; Software: SMS; Supervision: SMS, RSV, SB; Validation: SKK, SMS; Visualization: SKK, SMS, DDS, MUS; Writing – Original Draft: SKK, SB; Writing – Review & Editing: SKK, SMS, RSV, DDS, SB, MUS.

Our heartfelt thanks to Mr. Michael S. Korenfeld, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University, for guiding us in designing the ocular pressure estimator; Mr. Rakesh Reddy S.R., Mr. Guru Charan M.A., and Mr. Ratan Shenoy, students from the Department of Instrumentation and Control, Manipal Institute of Technology, for their complete assistance in the prototype development; Mr. Ramakrishnan for preparing pouches for the ocular pressure estimator; and Manipal University Press for proofreading our manuscript for the English language.

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