Lumineyes Optical Architectural Typology (L-OAT): a multimodal hypothesis for quantitative iris phenotyping

Lumineyes Optical Architectural Typology (L-OAT) proposes a multimodal framework for quantitative iris phenotyping that represents the living iris through calibrated visible-light imaging and anterior-segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT). The framework integrates three candidate domains: visible colour and its spatial distribution, iris geometry and architecture, and OCT-derived signal characteristics. It defines acquisition, segmentation, quality-control, repeatability, and multimodal registration requirements and proposes an empirical pathway toward dimension reduction and, only if justified by data, phenotype classes. L-OAT is intended as a quantitative measurement language for studying iris architecture, spatial heterogeneity, and longitudinal phenotypic change while explicitly separating visible appearance from OCT signal interpretation and histological inference.