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- Title
Artificial Visual Information Produced by Retinal Prostheses.
- Authors
Kim, Sein; Roh, Hyeonhee; Im, Maesoon
- Abstract
Numerous retinal prosthetic systems have demonstrated somewhat useful vision can be restored to individuals who had lost their sight due to outer retinal degenerative diseases. Earlier prosthetic studies have mostly focused on the confinement of electrical stimulation for improved spatial resolution and/or the biased stimulation of specific retinal ganglion cell (RGC) types for selective activation of retinal ON/OFF pathway for enhanced visual percepts. To better replicate normal vision, it would be also crucial to consider information transmission by spiking activities arising in the RGC population since an incredible amount of visual information is transferred from the eye to the brain. In previous studies, however, it has not been well explored how much artificial visual information is created in response to electrical stimuli delivered by microelectrodes. In the present work, we discuss the importance of the neural information for high-quality artificial vision. First, we summarize the previous literatures which have computed information transmission rates from spiking activities of RGCs in response to visual stimuli. Second, we exemplify a couple of studies which computed the neural information from electrically evoked responses. Third, we briefly introduce how information rates can be computed in the representative two ways – direct method and reconstruction method. Fourth, we introduce in silico approaches modeling artificial retinal neural networks to explore the relationship between amount of information and the spiking patterns. Lastly, we conclude our review with clinical implications to emphasize the necessity of considering visual information transmission for further improvement of retinal prosthetics.
- Subjects
RETINAL ganglion cells; PROSTHETICS; VISUAL perception; ARTIFICIAL neural networks; ELECTRIC stimulation; RETINAL diseases
- Publication
Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2022, Vol 16, p1
- ISSN
1662-5102
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3389/fncel.2022.911754