Vision function testing for a suprachoroidal retinal prosthesis: Effects of image filtering

Journal of Neural Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Barnes, Nick ^a,b   Scott, Adele F ^a   Lieby, Paulette ^a   Petoe, Matthew A ^c,d   McCarthy, Chris ^a,b,e   Stacey, Ashley ^a   Ayton, Lauren N ^d   Sinclair, Nicholas C ^c   Shivdasani, Mohit N ^c,d   Lovell, Nigel H ^f   McDermott, Hugh J ^c,d   Walker, Janine G ^a,b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c BIONICS INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

blindness; computer vision; image filtering; retinal prosthetic; retinitis pigmentosa; vision processing for prosthetic vision

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; IMAGE PROCESSING; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PROCESSING; PROSTHETICS; VISION AIDS;

BLINDNESS; IMAGE FILTERING; PROSTHETIC VISION; RETINAL PROSTHETICS; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA;

COMPUTER VISION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVERAGING; CASE REPORT; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE FILTERING; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTIVE FEEDBACK; RESPONSE TIME; RETINAL IMPLANT; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; SUPRACHOROIDAL RETINAL PROSTHESIS; VISION; VISION TEST; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; BLINDNESS; CHOROID; ELECTRODE IMPLANT; LIGHT; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL PROSTHESIS;

BLINDNESS; CHOROID; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIGHT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISION DISORDERS; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VISUAL PROSTHESIS;

EID: 84969975018     PISSN: 17412560     EISSN: 17412552     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1741-2560/13/3/036013     Document Type: Article

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