Photovoltaic retinal prosthesis restores high-resolution responses to single-pixel stimulation in blind retinas

NAL Chenais, MJI Airaghi Leccardi… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
Retinal prostheses hold the promise of restoring vision in totally blind people. However, a
decade of clinical trials highlighted quantitative limitations hampering the possibility of …

Clinical progress and optimization of information processing in artificial visual prostheses

J Wang, R Zhao, P Li, Z Fang, Q Li, Y Han, R Zhou… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Visual prostheses, used to assist in restoring functional vision to the visually impaired,
convert captured external images into corresponding electrical stimulation patterns that are …

POLYRETINA restores light responses in vivo in blind Göttingen minipigs

P Vagni, MJI Airaghi Leccardi, CH Vila… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Retinal prostheses hold the potential for artificial vision in blind people affected by incurable
diseases of the outer retinal layer. Available technologies provide only a small field of view …

A systematic review of extended reality (XR) for understanding and augmenting vision loss

J Kasowski, BA Johnson, R Neydavood… - Journal of …, 2023 - jov.arvojournals.org
Over the past decade, extended reality (XR) has emerged as an assistive technology not
only to augment residual vision of people losing their sight but also to study the rudimentary …

Towards biologically plausible phosphene simulation for the differentiable optimization of visual cortical prostheses

M van der Grinten, JR van Steveninck, A Lozano… - Elife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
Blindness affects millions of people around the world. A promising solution to restoring a
form of vision for some individuals are cortical visual prostheses, which bypass part of the …

Advances in visual prostheses: engineering and biological challenges

E Borda, D Ghezzi - Progress in Biomedical Engineering, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Vision is an extraordinary sense through which we can appreciate the beauty of the world
we live in, gain invaluable knowledge and communicate with others using visual expression …

Towards a Smart Bionic Eye: AI-powered artificial vision for the treatment of incurable blindness

M Beyeler, M Sanchez-Garcia - Journal of Neural Engineering, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. How can we return a functional form of sight to people who are living with
incurable blindness? Despite recent advances in the development of visual …

The role of the visual field size in artificial vision

D Ghezzi - Journal of Neural Engineering, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Artificial vision has been and still is the subject of intense research. The ultimate
goal is to help blind people in their daily life. Approaches to artificial vision, including visual …

Naturalistic spatiotemporal modulation of epiretinal stimulation increases the response persistence of retinal ganglion cell

NAL Chenais, MJIA Leccardi… - Journal of neural …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Retinal stimulation in blind patients evokes the sensation of discrete points of light
called phosphenes, which allows them to perform visually guided tasks, such as orientation …

Improving the spatial resolution of artificial vision using midget retinal ganglion cell populations modeled at the human fovea

ML Italiano, T Guo, NH Lovell… - Journal of Neural …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Retinal prostheses seek to create artificial vision by stimulating surviving retinal
neurons of patients with profound vision impairment. Notwithstanding tremendous research …