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Photographs are taken before and after provocation increasing the redness of the conjunctiva due to hyperemia.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Objective: We propose and evaluate an automatic image processing pipeline for objective and quantitative CPT.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Method: After scale normalization based on intrinsic image features, the conjunctiva region of interest (ROI) is segmented combining thresholding, edge detection and Hough transform. Redness of the ROI is measured from 0 to 1 by the average pixel redness, which is defined by truncated projection in HSV space. In total, 92 images from an observational diagnostic study are processed for evaluation. The database contains images from two visits for assessment of the test- retest reliability (46 images per visit).<\/jats:p><jats:p>Result: All images were successfully processed by the algorithm. The relative redness increment correlates between the two visits with Pearson\u2019s r = 0.672 (p &lt; .001). 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