Glen Gillen, EdD, OTR, FAOTA, is Associate Professor of Clinical Occupational Therapy, Programs in Occupational Therapy, Columbia University, 710 West 168th Street, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10032; [email protected] The American Occupational Therapy Association’s (AOTA’s) Centennial Vision states, “We envision that occupational therapy is a powerful, widely recognized, science-driven, and evidenc...

gesture and motion recognition are needed for a variety of applications. the use of human hand motions as a natural interface tool has motivated researchers to conduct research in the modeling, analysis and recognition of various hand movements. in particular, human-computer intelligent interaction has been a focus of research in vision-based gesture recognition. in this work, we introduce a 3-...

acquired color deficiency in the tritan axis in parkinson’s disease has already been reported, manifesting itself as impaired performance in various visual tasks. however, its clinical significance has always been controversial. in this study we evaluated the performance of parkinson s disease patients in lanthony 15-desaturated clinical test and for the first time, compared it with the standar...

Sight-restoring therapy for the visually impaired and blind is a major unmet medical need. Ocular gene therapy is a rational choice for restoring vision or preventing the loss of vision because most blinding diseases originate in cellular components of the eye, a compartment that is optimally suited for the delivery of genes, and many of these diseases have a genetic origin or genetic component...

This special issue of the Journal of Optometry has a focus on ‘‘binocular vision’’. Over the past decade, the area of binocular vision, and related oculomotor-based reading performance and visual comfort, as well as other visual aspects, has taken on a special prominence. This is primarily due to two factors.1 First, there are the United States conflicts that have persisted in the mideast over ...

At iThemba Labs, we are constructing a patient positioning system for proton therapy. This system will use stereo vision techniques to accurately position the patient relative to the beam line. To do this, we need to be sure that the vision system is functioning correctly. In addition to various procedural checks, we implement a variety of software tests to try and detect errors in the vision s...

BACKGROUND Optic neuritis is a frequent manifestation of multiple sclerosis. Visual deficits range from a minor impairment of visual functions through to complete loss of vision. Although many patients recover almost completely, roughly 35% of patients remain visually impaired for years, and therapeutic options for those patients hardly exist. Vision restoration therapy is a software-based visu...