Image analysis for microelectronic retinal prosthesis

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 344-346

  Hallum, L E ^a,b   Cloherty, S L ^a,c   Lovell, N H ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Computational vision; Functional electrical stimulation (FES); Image processing; Information theory; Low vision; Signal processing; Vision prosthesis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION THEORY; MICROELECTRONICS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION (FES); LOW VISION; MICROELECTRONIC RETINAL PROSTHESIS; VISION PROSTHESIS;

PROSTHETICS;

ARTICLE; DEVICE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; KERNEL METHOD; MICROELECTRODE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL PROSTHESIS; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BLINDNESS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RETINA; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 37349051457     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2007.903713     Document Type: Article

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