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2017

Combined eye-head vs. head-only scanning in a blind patient implanted with the Argus II retinal prosthesis


Abstract

The Argus II retinal prosthesis has a dissociation between the line of sight of the camera and that of the eye. The image-capturing camera is mounted on the glasses and therefore, eye movements do not influence the visual information sent to the implanted electrodes. We have demonstrated a closed-loop setup that shifts the visual information based on real-time eye position. In contrast to previous experiments, the setup does not require head restraints. The setup is based on a self-calibrating mobile eye tracker that allows free head movements. The patient was required to report the location of a white bar on a black background. An internal sensor was used to record the amount of head motion during the task. Results suggest that during combined eye-head scanning, head movement amplitude was significantly less than in the currently used head-only scanning. In the combined eye-head scanning, the patient first steers to the region of interest using eye movements followed by head movements as in sighted individuals. This is the first demonstration that eye movements can be used in combination with head movements to steer the line of sight of a camera-based retinal prosthesis.

Citation

@inproceedingsCaspi_2017 doi: 10.1109/ner.2017.8008284 url: https://doi.org/10.1109/ner.2017.8008284 year: 2017 month: may publisher: IEEE author: Caspi Avi and Rosendall Paul E. and Harper Jason W. and Barry Michael P. and Katyal Kapil D. and Dagnelie Gislin and Roy Arup title: Combined eye-head vs. head-only scanning in a blind patient implanted with the Argus II retinal prosthesis booktitle: 2017 8th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering (NER)

Citation

@inproceedingsCaspi_2017 doi: 10.1109/ner.2017.8008284 url: https://doi.org/10.1109/ner.2017.8008284 year: 2017 month: may publisher: IEEE author: Caspi Avi and Rosendall Paul E. and Harper Jason W. and Barry Michael P. and Katyal Kapil D. and Dagnelie Gislin and Roy Arup title: Combined eye-head vs. head-only scanning in a blind patient implanted with the Argus II retinal prosthesis booktitle: 2017 8th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering (NER)