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  • Title: A method for plotting the optimum positions of an array of cortical electrical phosphenes.
    Author: Everitt BS, Rushton DN.
    Journal: Biometrics; 1978 Sep; 34(3):399-410. PubMed ID: 719122.
    Abstract:
    The cortical visual prosthesis provides one approach to the substitution of vision in blind people. Usable visual information is provided in the form of phosphenes, and in order to make use of the prosthesis the positions of the phosphenes in visual space must first be determined. Such phosphene maps have to be constructed from observations of the angle and distance between various pairs of phosphenes. Because of the variation in repeated observations of the same phosphene pair, some method is needed to provide the 'best' fitting map to the observations. By formulating the problem as one involving the minimization of a function of many variables, an algorithm is constructed which determines a two-dimensional co-ordinate for each phosphene by minimizing one of two criteria indicating the fit of the map to the observations. The minimization algorithm employed is, essentially, a 'steepest descent' procedure, and initial co-ordinate values are provided by a triangulation method.
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