A communication system for ALS patients using eye blink

Kazuhiro Takeshita; Akihiko Uchibori; Yoshiki Mizukami; Taiji Satoh; Kanya Tanaka; Shigeru Uchikado

doi:10.3233/jae-2003-269

A communication system for ALS patients using eye blink

Kazuhiro Takeshita, Akihiko Uchibori, Yoshiki Mizukami, Taiji Satoh, Kanya Tanaka, Shigeru Uchikado

Department of Electronics and Bioinformatics

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Abstract

The purpose of our research is to design a communication system for ALS patients who have difficulty in using their hands and mouth. In the proposed system, eye blink is adopted as a switch to tell judging patient's intention by using several image processing. A list of intentions is displayed on the PC monitor; each intention is displayed with an adequate time interval. The patient can select the candidate intention by blinking his/her eye. To investigate the efficiency of the proposed system, we conducted experiments on 10 subjects. The experimental results show that the proposed system distinguished conscious and unconscious eye blink.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3-10
Number of pages	8
Journal	International Journal of Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics
Volume	18
Issue number	1-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3233/jae-2003-269
Publication status	Published - 2003

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