A game platform for treatment of amblyopia

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 280-289

  To, Long ^a   Thompson, Benjamin ^b   Blum, Jeffrey R ^a   Maehara, Goro ^a   Hess, Robert F ^a   Cooperstock, Jeremy R ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Biology; biomedical engineering; brain stimulation; cognition; cognitive informatics; cybernetics; medical diagnosis; medical treatment; neural engineering; physiology; psychology; psychometric testing; sensitivity and specificity

Indexed keywords

BRAIN STIMULATION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE INFORMATICS; MEDICAL TREATMENT; NEURAL ENGINEERING; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRIC TESTING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DIAGNOSIS;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHM; AMBLYOPIA; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECREATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; AMBLYOPIA; CALIBRATION; COMPUTERS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VIDEO GAMES; VISION, BINOCULAR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79958693800     PISSN: 15344320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2011.2115255     Document Type: Article

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