Impaired hand function is one of the most frequently persistent consequences of stroke. Throughout the rehabilitation process, physicians consistently monitor patients and perform kinematic evaluations in order to assess their overall progress in mot...
Abnormal dislocation of cone opsin protein affects the sensitivity function of photoreceptors and results in depressed central vision. Nutraceutical therapy is needed to restore the residual function of photoreceptors. Crocin is a natural substance f...
Danshensu, a traditional herb-based active component (Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge), has garnered attention, due to its safety, nutritional value, and antioxidant effects, along with cardiovascular-protective and neuroprotective abilities; however, its...
Light-evoked retinal photodamage is considered an important factor contributing to functional vision deterioration and can even lead to light maculopathy or dry age-related macular degeneration. Loss of visual acuity (VA) and visual contrast sensitiv...
This study presents an optimized design and vision-guided control strategy for a multi-functional robotic gripper integrated into an automatic loading system for warehouse environments. The system adopts a modular architecture, including standardized...
Advances in robotic technology for hand rehabilitation, particularly soft robotic gloves, have significant potential to improve patient outcomes. While vision-based algorithms pave the way for fast and convenient hand pose estimation, most current mo...
Automated Vehicles (AVs) are attracting attention as a safer mobility option thanks to the recent advancement of various sensing technologies that realize a much quicker Perception–Reaction Time than Human-Driven Vehicles (HVs). However, AVs ar...
This case report describes the outcome of vision therapy for three patients who were referred to therapy due to visual symptoms after mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI). The criterion for inclusion was a high score (>21p) on the Convergence Insuff...
Our purpose is to develop and validate a new iPad-based contrast sensitivity (CS) test for measuring the contrast sensitivity function at near vision (Optopad-CSF). A total of 200 eyes of 100 healthy subjects (ages 17–63) were evaluated in a co...
Keynote at the 20th European Conference on Eye Movement Research (ECEM) in Alicante, 20.8.2019 [...]
The aim of this paper is to study the profile of persons with low vision in Jordan based on the clinical records of service users who attended the Vision Rehabilitation Center (VRC) at the German Jordanian University (GJU). A retrospective study was...
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is characterized by depressive episodes related to changes in the seasons. Patients with severe vision loss are at an increased risk of SAD. This study seeks to determine the extent to which patients with moderate vi...
Purpose: The aim of this study is to investigate the structure–function characteristics and vision-related quality of life (VR-QoL) in uveitic glaucoma (UG) compared with open-angle glaucoma (OAG). Method: The study included 69 patients with UG and 1...
There is great interest in automatically detecting road weather and understanding its impacts on the overall safety of the transport network. This can, for example, support road condition-based maintenance or even serve as detection systems that assi...
In integrated circuit manufacturing, defects in epoxy drops for die attachments are required to be identified during production. Modern identification techniques based on vision-based deep neural networks require the availability of a very large numb...
Low vision (LV) has a substantial impact on an individual’s daily functionality and patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are increasingly incorporated into the evaluation of this problem. The objective of this study was to describe the des...
Functional Optical Balance (FOB) is a novel personalized strategy for intraocular lens (IOL) selection in cataract surgery, designed to reconcile the trade-off between optical quality and spectacle independence. FOB is a core concept aiming to maximi...
Activation functions play a crucial role in ensuring training stability, convergence speed, and overall performance in both convolutional and attention-based networks. In this study, we introduce two novel activation functions, each incorporating a s...
Cerebral Visual Impairment (CVI) has become the leading cause of children’s visual impairment in developed countries. Since CVI may negatively affect neuropsychomotor development, an early diagnosis and characterization become fundamental to de...
Background: Premature children with retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) have been reported to an have increased risk of visual and neurocognitive impairments, yet little is known about whether vision could affect specific neurocognition. This study aime...
Random speckle structured light can increase the texture information of the object surface, so it is added in the binocular stereo vision system to solve the matching ambiguity problem caused by the surface with repetitive pattern or no texture. To i...
Many people suffer from myopia or hyperopia due to the refractive errors of the cornea all over the world. The use of high refractive index (RI), Abbe number (νd), and visible light transmittance (T%) polymeric contact lenses (CLs) holds great pro...
Purpose: With the benefits of advanced medical technology, Taiwan has gradually changed from an aged society to a super-aged society. According to previous studies, the prevalence rate of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) over the age of 60 is 15% to 2...
Functional electrical stimulation (FES) is a rehabilitation and assistive technique used for stroke survivors. FES systems mainly consist of sensors, a control algorithm, and a stimulation unit. However, there is a critical need to reassess sensing a...
Introduction: The study aims to determine an association between presenting symptoms in multiple sclerosis and measures of disease severity, including the expanded disability status score (EDSS) and MRI based lesion volumes. Methods: Data was collect...
Background/Objectives: Cerebral visual impairment (CVI) is the leading cause of visual disability in children, resulting from damage to the brain’s visual processing pathways. Although ocular structures may be intact, functional vision, the use...
Sustainable and green waste management has become increasingly crucial due to the rising volume of waste driven by urbanization and population growth. Deep learning models based on image recognition offer potential for advanced waste classification a...
It is known that bilingualism may cause some specific problems with the articulation of sounds and errors in reading and writing when acquiring linguistic skills. The paper presents the results and conclusions related to the use of the Warnke method...
Vision is fundamental to the acquisition of motor, cognitive, and social skills, playing a crucial role in typical development. Early visual impairments are associated with various neurodevelopmental conditions, including Autism Spectrum Disorder (AS...
Some estimates suggest that one in seven good readers and the majority of children with reading difficulties suffer from oculomotor dysfunction (OMD), an umbrella term for abnormalities in comfortable and accurate fixations, pursuits, and saccades. H...
Train wheel sets must be periodically inspected for possible or actual premature failures and it is very significant to record the wear history for the full life of utilization of wheel sets. This means that an online measuring system could be of gre...
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Background: To examine the associations of visual and hearing functions, and frailty with subjective memory complaints (SMCs) in a community primary care pilot project of older people aged 60 years and over. Methods: The study was conducted in 24 com...
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The Visual Functioning-14 (VF-14) scale is the most widely employed index of vision-related functional impairment and serves as a patient-reported outcome measure in vision-specific quality of life. The purpose of this study is to rigorously examine...
Hand impairment affects millions of people. There are multiple factors that cause deficits, varying from physical injuries to neurological disorders. Upper-limb patients face significant difficulties in daily life. Rehabilitation aims at supporting t...
The restoration of fine motor function in the hand is crucial for stroke survivors with hemiplegia to reintegrate into daily life and presents a significant challenge in post-stroke rehabilitation. Current mirror rehabilitation systems based on weara...
Safety signs serve as an important information carrier for safety standards and rule constraints. Detecting safety signs in mines is essential for automatically early warning of unsafe behaviors and the wearing of protective equipment while using com...
Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is beneficial for studying brain activity in naturalistic settings due to its tolerance for movement. However, residual motion artifacts still compromise fNIRS data quality and might lead to spurious resu...
Navigation line extraction is critical for precision agriculture and automatic navigation. A novel method for extracting navigation lines based on machine vision is proposed herein using a straight line detected based on a high-ridge crop row. Aiming...
The thresholds of macular microvasculature parameters associated with mild visual impairment in diabetic macular ischemia (DMI) patients are unclear. Therefore, this prospective observational study is aimed at demonstrating the optical coherence tomo...
Background/Objectives: Keratoconus (KC) is a bilateral asymmetric corneal ectasia characterized by progressive corneal thinning, irregular astigmatism, and impaired visual acuity. The National Eye Institute (NEI) developed the Visual Function Questio...
Leber congenital amaurosis caused by mutations in the RPE65 gene belongs to the most severe early-onset hereditary childhood retinopathies naturally progressing to legal blindness. The novel gene therapy voretigene neparvovec is the first approved ca...
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When we study the human ability to attend, what exactly do we seek to understand? It is not clear what the answer might be to this question. There is still so much to know, while acknowledging the tremendous progress of past decades of research. It i...
Cortical vision impairment (CVI) and Cerebral Palsy (CP) lead to decrement in sensory and motor functions of infants. The current study examined the effectiveness of sensory integration interventions on sensory, motor, and oculomotor skills in infant...
Olive pitting, slicing and stuffing machines (DRR in Spanish) are characterized by the fact that their optimal functioning is based on appropriate adjustments. Traditional systems are not completely reliable because their minimum error rate is 1&ndas...
Many children have undetected vision problems or insufficient visual information processing that may be a factor in lower academic outcomes. The aim of this paper is to contribute to a better understanding of the importance of vision screening for sc...
Executive functions (EFs) and motor skills are essential for many school and daily tasks. Many school-based occupational therapists need help addressing EFs. The current study aims to provide new insights into the relationship between executive funct...
Image vignetting is one of the major radiometric errors, which occurs in lens-camera systems. In many applications, vignetting is an undesirable phenomenon; therefore, when it is impossible to fully prevent its occurrence, it is necessary to use comp...
Visual functions that affect vision-related quality of life (VR-QoL) before and after intravitreal injection of ranibizumab in patients with cystoid macular edema secondary to central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO-CME) are poorly understood. This mult...
The global aging population faces significant health challenges, including an increasing vulnerability to disability due to natural aging processes. Wearable lower limb exoskeletons (LLEs) have emerged as a promising solution to enhance physical func...
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