wangchuanqing@westlake.edu.cn
China
Chuanqing WANG received the B.S. degree in material science and engineering from Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China. He participated in summer program of Neuroscience and Cognitive Science in Tsinghua-Peking University. He joined the Center of Excellence in Biomedical Research on Advanced Integrated-on-chips Neurotechnologies (CenBRAIN Neurotech) and became a PhD Candidate of Westlake University in September 2019.
Retinal prostheses are intended to enhance vision for retinal impairment disease such as Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) and Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP). These devices, dealing with visual signal processing ability and energy efficiency, are emerging as a wearable intelligent device for personal healthcare purposes. The implementation of deep-learning algorithms is adopted to replace the behavior of degenerative cell layers in our proposed retinal prosthesis. This algorithm is being implemented in a custom neuromorphic processor to meet the real-time processing and low-power consumption criteria. This optogenetic-based retinal prosthesis with bio-inspired processing framework as well as power efficient characteristics will provide solution to recover the lost cell layers in both AMD and RP vision diseases.
[1] C. Wang, J. Yang and M. Sawan, “NeuroSEE: A Neuromorphic Energy Efficient Processing Framework for Visual Prostheses,” Accepted by IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2022.