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Chapter 1 - Restoring Vision to the Blind: The New Age of Implanted Visual Prostheses

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The Lasker IRRF Initiative for Innovation in Vision Science The Lasker IRRF Initiative for …

Publication year - 2014

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translational vision science and technology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 2164-2591

DOI - 10.1167/tvst.3.7.3

Subject(s) - optometry , blindness , visual prosthesis , blind spot , medicine , computer science , ophthalmology , artificial intelligence , retinal

The timing of the Lasker/IRRF (International Retinal Research Foundation) Initiative on Restoring Vision to the Blind in March of 2014 was particularly opportune given that the first commercial sales of implanted visual prostheses (the Argus II) occurred in 2011 (Rizzo et al., 2014), and a second commercial device (the Alpha-IMS [Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung]) entered the market in 2013 (Zrenner, 2013). We are therefore at a perfect point to look back on the successes of visual prostheses as well as to look forward to what the future may hold. The core question for the Implanted Visual Prostheses session, which was fine-tuned by the session members and provided a framework for our discussions was: How to provide useful visual information to patients blind from lesions in the afferent visual pathway by means of safe and efficient electronic implants?

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