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Methods: Spectral-domain optical coherence tomography was used to estimate the thickness of the peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer in both eyes of the patients in the study. These measurements were collected in a dataset from healthy and glaucoma patients. Several metrics for asymmetry in the retinal nerve fiber layer thickness between the two eyes were then proposed. These metrics were evaluated using the dataset by performing a statistical analysis to assess their significance as relevant features in the diagnosis of glaucoma. Finally, the usefulness of these asymmetry features was demonstrated by designing supervised machine learning models that can be used for the early diagnosis of glaucoma. Results: Machine learning models were designed and optimized, specifically decision trees, based on the values of proposed asymmetry metrics. The use of these models on the dataset provided good classification of the patients (accuracy 88%, sensitivity 70%, specificity 93% and precision 75%). Conclusions: The obtained machine learning models based on retinal nerve fiber layer asymmetry are simple but effective methods which offer a good trade-off in classification of patients and simplicity. 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