Image Processing Strategies Dedicated To the Optic Nerve Stimulation

Author

Yu, Wei ; Tian, Yukun ; Chai, Xinyu ; Ren, Qiushi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., Shanghai

fYear

2006

fDate

16-18 Oct. 2006

Firstpage

147

Lastpage

150

Abstract

The goal of the optic nerve stimulation is to place multielectrode electrodes around the optic nerve and evoke multiplephosphenes covering the entire visual space by using complex patterns of electrical stimulation. This paper mainly studies the best image processing strategies applying to the optic nerve stimulation. Four image processing strategies that could be used in the optic nerve stimulation such as histogram equalization, edge detection, edge following, binary morphological operations. As we learn more about the neural coding of visual system, the better image processing strategies will be applied to the artificial vision.

Keywords

bioelectric phenomena; medical image processing; neurophysiology; prosthetics; vision; artificial vision systems; binary morphological operations; edge detection; electrical stimulation; histogram equalization; image processing strategies; multielectrode electrodes; multiplephosphenes; neural coding; optic nerve stimulation; vision prostheses; visual space; Biomedical optical imaging; Electrical stimulation; Electrodes; Histograms; Image edge detection; Image processing; Space technology; Stimulated emission; Visual prosthesis; Visual system;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biophotonics, Nanophotonics and Metamaterials, 2006. Metamaterials 2006. International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Hangzhou

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9773-8

Electronic_ISBN

0-7803-9774-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/METAMAT.2006.335021

Filename

4134760