以人工智能为驱动,为视力受损者提供低成本的辅助工具
Francesco Cappellani1,2, Martin Snyder2, Jose S Pulido2
1Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Enna Kore, Enna, Italy.
Current opinion in ophthalmology
|March 2, 2026
概括
人工智能 (AI) 正在为视障人士提供更容易使用的辅助技术. 消费者设备中的新兴人工智能工具提供了负担得起的,集成的支持,尽管临床验证仍然是必要的.
科学领域:
- 辅助技术 辅助技术 辅助技术
- 人工智能的人工智能
- 眼科医生 眼科 眼科
背景情况:
- 主流消费者设备越来越多地结合了人工智能 (AI).
- 这为视力受损者提供了可访问,低成本的辅助工具的新机会.
- 新兴的人工智能工具将智能手机和智能眼镜等常见硬件重新用于辅助功能.
研究的目的:
- 审查新兴的人工智能驱动工具,利用常见的硬件来帮助视力障碍者.
- 检查这些工具如何为昂贵的专用辅助设备提供替代品.
- 突出向负担得起的,集成的辅助技术的转变.
主要方法:
- 审查新兴的人工智能驱动的辅助技术.
- 对重新利用智能手机和智能眼镜的工具进行分析.
- 检查像Ray-Ban × Meta智能眼镜,果iPhone放大器应用程序和Be My Eyes这样的平台.
主要成果:
- 三种代表性技术展示了AI的作用:用于场景解释的智能眼镜,用于空间意识和文本识别的智能手机应用程序,以及用于图像解释的虚拟助理.
- 这些工具优先考虑了可负担性,谨慎的设计和日常生活的整合.
- 广泛采用被注意到,但关于功能结果,安全性和性能的正式临床评估是有限的,用户生成的内容往往导致同行评审的研究.
结论:
- 支持人工智能的消费设备正在通过降低成本和提高可用性来改变辅助技术.
- 随着患者采用率的增加,临床医生必须意识到这些快速发展的工具.
- 进一步严格的研究是必要的,以评估临床影响,确保安全使用,并指导整合视力康复.
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