A wearable real-time image processor for a vision prosthesis

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 258-269

  Tsai, D ^a   Morley, J W ^a,b   Suaning, G J ^a   Lovell, N H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bionic eye; Embedded image processing; Macular degeneration; Retinal prosthesis; Retinitis pigmentosa

Indexed keywords

CONFIGURABLE; DUAL-CORE; ELECTRICAL STIMULI; EMBEDDED IMAGE PROCESSING; EMBEDDED MICROPROCESSORS; IMAGE PROCESSORS; IMAGE-PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; LINUX- OPERATING SYSTEM; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MICROPROCESSOR ARCHITECTURES; REAL-TIME IMAGES; RETINAL PROSTHESIS; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; STANDARD DESKTOP; VISION PROSTHESIS; VISUAL IMAGE;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSORS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; MILITARY PHOTOGRAPHY; OPHTHALMOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

PROSTHETICS;

ALGORITHM; ARCHITECTURE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER; DEVICE; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERNET; MICROPROCESSOR; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VISUAL PROSTHESIS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BLINDNESS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MINIATURIZATION; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TELEMETRY; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 67649408783     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2009.03.009     Document Type: Article

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