Glaucoma is a leading cause of blindness with no cure, but early treatment and effective monitoring can often slow the progression of the disease. Monitoring of glaucoma is based on the measurement of intra-ocular pressure (IOP) that is a physiological parameter related to the mechanical state and parameters of the eye. Conventionally, diagnosing and assessing the progression of glaucoma is based on the method of measuring IOP discretely at clinics.
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February 2015
In this work, a fully optical Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) based catheter tracking system designed for 3 T Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) environment is presented. The system aims to solve the Radio Frequency (RF) induced heating problem present in conventional wired catheter tracking systems used in MRI. It is based on an integrated circuit, consisting of a receiver and an optical power supply unit.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA synthesis system based on a circuit simulator and a silicon assembler for analog neural networks to be implemented in MOS technology is presented. The system approximates on-chip training of the neural network under consideration and provides the best starting point for 'chip-in-the-loop training'. Behaviour of the analog neural network circuitry is modeled according to its SPICE simulations and those models are used in the initial training of the analog neural networks prior to the fine tuning stage.
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