PRESELECTION OF NEUROSTIMULATION WAVEFORMS FOR VISUAL PROSTHESES USING GENETIC ALGORITHMS

Samuel Romero, Alberto Guillén, Cristóbal J. Carmona, C. Morillas, F. Pelayo, H. Pomares

2010

Abstract

Among the variety of approaches for developing therapies for the blind, electrical neurostimulation of the visual pathways seems to be a promising choice. Delivering bi-phasic bioelectric pulses to the nerves implies the selection of values for a number of parameters within a wide range. This needs to be done for every implanted electrode, and for every patient. Nowadays, electrode arrays can include up to one hundred channels, and we expect to raise to thousands of them in a near future. This unavoidable task becomes extremely time-consuming both for the researcher and for the patient. Therefore, in order to reduce the number of tests to be carried out in vivo, we propose the use of multi-objective genetic algorithms that can provide a limited set of candidate waveforms to be tried.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Romero S., Guillén A., J. Carmona C., Morillas C., Pelayo F. and Pomares H. (2010). PRESELECTION OF NEUROSTIMULATION WAVEFORMS FOR VISUAL PROSTHESES USING GENETIC ALGORITHMS . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - Volume 1: BIODEVICES, (BIOSTEC 2010) ISBN 978-989-674-017-7, pages 191-194. DOI: 10.5220/0002744301910194

in Bibtex Style

@conference{biodevices10,
author={Samuel Romero and Alberto Guillén and Cristóbal J. Carmona and C. Morillas and F. Pelayo and H. Pomares},
title={PRESELECTION OF NEUROSTIMULATION WAVEFORMS FOR VISUAL PROSTHESES USING GENETIC ALGORITHMS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - Volume 1: BIODEVICES, (BIOSTEC 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={191-194},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002744301910194},
isbn={978-989-674-017-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - Volume 1: BIODEVICES, (BIOSTEC 2010)
TI - PRESELECTION OF NEUROSTIMULATION WAVEFORMS FOR VISUAL PROSTHESES USING GENETIC ALGORITHMS
SN - 978-989-674-017-7
AU - Romero S.
AU - Guillén A.
AU - J. Carmona C.
AU - Morillas C.
AU - Pelayo F.
AU - Pomares H.
PY - 2010
SP - 191
EP - 194
DO - 10.5220/0002744301910194