What is it about?
The standard treatment for lazy eye (amblyopia) in children is to cover the healthy eye with a patch. This trains the lazy eye to work harder. Such therapy is successful only when the child wears the patch for the prescribed period of time. This is often not the case, however, as many children feel self-conscious about wearing the patch and reject this form of treatment. A future alternative is smart shutter glasses that automatically occlude the lens in front of the healthy eye and make a continuous therapy monitoring possible.
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Why is it important?
Without treatment, in general, lazy eye is very likely to lead to a permanent vision impairment, which could have an impact on future quality of life and career choices. Our findings show that continuous therapy monitoring is feasible by calculating wearing and occlusion times with smart shutter glasses. This advanced treatment, in particular, may potentially improve therapy compliance and ultimately efficacy.
Perspectives
Writing this article was a great pleasure as it has co-authors with whom I have had fruitful collaborations. I hope that this article will lead to more opportunities to further transform these smart glasses into a therapeutic medical device.
Frank Ihmig
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung eV
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This page is a summary of: Monitoring of wearing and occlusion times with smart shutter glasses—A proof of concept, PLoS ONE, June 2022, PLOS,
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0270361.
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