Smart ophthalmics: the future in tele-ophthalmology has arrived
- Creators
- Fink, Wolfgang
- Tarbell, Mark A.
- Garcia, Kevin
Abstract
Smart Ophthalmics^© extends ophthalmic healthcare to people who operate/live in austere environments (e.g., military, third world, natural disaster), or are geographically dispersed (e.g., rural populations), where time, cost, and the possibility of travel/transportation make access to even adequate medical care difficult, if at all possible. Operators attach optical devices that act as ophthalmic examination extensions to smartphones and run custom apps to perform examinations of specific areas of the eye. The smartphone apps submit over wireless networks the collected examination data to a smart remote expert system, which provides in-depth medical analyses that are sent back in near real-time to the operators for subsequent triage.
Additional Information
© 2016 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). The work described in this publication was carried out at the University of Arizona under support of the National Science Foundation Award #IIP-1430062 and the Edward & Maria Keonjian Endowment at the University of Arizona. Authors WF and MAT may have financial interest in the technology presented here as they are named as inventors on several issued Caltech patents and pending University of Arizona patents on the underlying technologies. Author KG has no financial interest in the technology presented.Attached Files
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Additional details
- Eprint ID
- 71984
- Resolver ID
- CaltechAUTHORS:20161114-100315072
- IIP-1430062
- NSF
- University of Arizona
- Created
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2016-11-15Created from EPrint's datestamp field
- Updated
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2021-11-11Created from EPrint's last_modified field
- Series Name
- Proceedings of SPIE
- Series Volume or Issue Number
- 9836