MICCAI 2022 Daily – Monday

Several diseases could result in blindness, including some that slowly attack the retina. For the most part, these are hereditary diseases with no cure. Retinal degeneration leads to sight loss because retinal cells are the first step in the vision process. However, even when that first step is gone, it is still possible to hijack the pathway if everything else works. “ Epiretinal prostheses bypass the dead retinal cells by stimulating the next part of the pathway , ” Ashley explains. “ They stimulate the surviving cells and can produce these phosphenes or flashes of light and, quote-unquote, restore vision. ” 16 DAILY MICCAI Monday Poster Presentation Greedy Optimization of Electrode Arrangement for Epiretinal Prostheses Ashley Bruce is a recent graduate from UCSB and a Software Engineer at Veeva. Michael Beyeler is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Psychological & Brain Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Ashley and Michael speak to us ahead of their poster presentation this afternoon about their work exploring the optimal arrangement of electrodes in epiretinal prostheses. Ashley Bruce