mobileVision

The Problem:

An estimated 61 million adults in the U.S. are at high risk for serious vision loss, but only half visited an eye doctor in the past 12 months[http://www.cdc.gov/vision health/basic_information/fast_facts.htm]. We believe this unmet need can be addressed through comprehensive eye screening. However, conventional retinal cameras are big, bulky, and expensive, which makes them unsuitable for widespread screening applications.

Paper

A self-use retinal imaging system for eye screening

Our Solution:

Through the co-design of optical hardware with image processing software such as retinal image registration, fusing, and stitching, the mobileVision prototype enables robust visualization of the retinal from a physically compact device suitable for screening applications.

Milestones:

  • March 2015 : Rice News article spreads virally – Futurity.org, ACM TechNews, the Engineer,
  • 2014 : Participated in the NSF I-Corps entrepreneurship bootcamp program, proposal I-Corps: TEAMS-MobileVision from Advanced Vision Labs“
  • October 2014 : Presented at Wireless Health 2014, Smartphone Based Retinal Imaging
  • January 2013 : MobileVision was published in Journal of Vision, Vol. 13, No. 15.
  • Spring 2012 : MobileVision wins Texas Instrument’s Engibous Prize at the 2012 Analog Design Contest.
  • 2012 : Rice University Undergraduate Research Symposium: Best project in engineering
  • 2012 : Rice University ECE Corporate Affiliates Day: Best Undergraduate Demo
  • 2011 : Project starts as undergraduate research in Ashu’s lab

Team

Adam Samaniego

Graduate Student, ECE

Rice University

 

Dr. Ashok Veeraraghavan

Assistant Professor

ECE, Rice University

Dr. Ashutosh Sabharwal,

Professor

ECE, Rice University

Paper

1) Adam Samaniego, Vivek Boominathan, Ashok Veeraraghavan, Ashutosh Sabharwal, mobileVision: A Face-mounted, Voice-activated, Non-mydriatic Lucky Ophthalmoscope“, in Wireless Health ’14.

2) Adam Samaniego, Jason Porter, Ashutosh Sabharwal, Michael Twa, Ashok Veeraraghavan, mobileVision: Towards a patient-operable, at-home, non-mydriatic retinal imaging system“, in Journal of Vision, Vol. 13, No. 15, 2013.