Publications, Presentations, and Awards

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Randomized Controlled Trial of Patching versus Dichoptic Stimulation Using Virtual Reality for Amblyopia Therapy

Meqdad Y, El-Basty M, Awadein A, Gouda J, Hassanein D (2024). Curr Eye Res. 2024 Feb;49(2):214-223.

The eRDS v6 Stereotest and the Vivid Vision Stereo Test: Two New Tests of Stereoscopic Vision

Denkinger S, Antoniou MP, Tarello D, Levi DM, Backus BT, Bavelier D, Chopin A (2023). Transl Vis Sci Technol. 2023 Mar 1;12(3):1.

Assessment of the Feasibility of Remote Training, At-Home Testing, and Test-Retest Variability of Clustered Virtual Reality Perimetry

Zer Keen Chia, Alan W. Kong, Marcus L. Turner, Murtaza Saifee, Bertil E. Damato, Benjamin T. Backus, James J. Blaha, Joel S. Schuman, Michael Deiner, Yvonne Ou

Implementing and monitoring at-home virtual reality oculo-kinetic perimetry during COVID-19.

Deiner, M. S., Damato, B. E., & Ou, Y. (2020). Implementing and monitoring at-home virtual reality oculo-kinetic perimetry during COVID-19. Ophthalmology, 127(9), 1258.

Virtual Reality Oculokinetic Perimetry Test Reproducibility and Relationship to Conventional Perimetry and OCT.

Greenfield, J. A., Deiner, M., Nguyen, A., Wollstein, G., Damato, B., Backus, B. T., ... & Ou, Y. (2022). Virtual Reality Oculokinetic Perimetry Test Reproducibility and Relationship to Conventional Perimetry and OCT. Ophthalmology Science, 2(1), 100105, 1-6.

Visual Training in Virtual Reality in Adult Patients With Anisometric Amblyopia

Halička J., Sahatqija E., Krasňanský M., Kapitánová K., Fedorová M., Žiak P. (2020). In Czech and Slovak Ophthalmology (Vol. 76, Issue 3). Czech Society of Ophthalmology of the CzMA. https://doi.org/10.31348/2020/3

Use of virtual reality to assess and treat weakness in human stereoscopic vision

Backus, B. T., Dornbos, B. D., Tran, T. A., Blaha, J. B., & Gupta, M. Z. (2018). Use of virtual reality to assess and treat weakness in human stereoscopic vision. Electronic Imaging, 2018(4), 109-1.

Amblyopia treatment of adults with dichoptic training using the virtual reality oculus rift head mounted display: preliminary results

Žiak, P., Holm, A., Halička, J., Mojžiš, P., & Piñero, D. P. (2017). BMC ophthalmology, 17(1), 105.

Posters

Binocular treatment for amblyopia in adults and children with low-pass filtering when occlusion therapy fails

Cindy Ho, Yousef M. Shahin, Henry Reis, Stefanie Grenier, Deborah Giaschi @ ARVO 2019

Systematic approach to the treatment of binocular dysfunction using virtual reality

Benjamin T. Backus, Tuan Tran, Brian Dornbos, James Blaha, Manish Gupta, Amina Weed, Monica Fehrs @ COVD 2019

Convergence Insufficiency Treatment Using Virtual Reality

Tressa Malikkal, Tuan Tran, Benjamin T. Backus, Brian D. Dornbos, and Amanda L. Hauns @ COVD 2019

A Vivid Recovery of Stereopsis

Amina Weed, Brian Dornbos, and Tuan Tran @ ICBO 2018

Articles

Clinical use of the Vivid Vision system to treat disorders of binocular vision

Backus, B. T., Tran, T., & Blaha, O. J. (2017).

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Vision Therapy and Virtual Reality Applications

Fortenbacher, D. L., Bartolini, A., Dornbos, B., & Tran, T. (2018). Vision Therapy and Virtual Reality Applications. Advances in Ophthalmology and Optometry, 3(1), 39-59.

Diplopia: A virtual reality game designed to help amblyopics

Blaha, J., & Gupta, M. (2014, March). In 2014 IEEE Virtual Reality (VR) (pp. 163-164). IEEE.

Use of continuous 3D target-tracking in VR to measure response latency to changes in depth

Backus B, Blaha J, Cormack L, Bonnen K Use of continuous 3D target-tracking in VR to measure response latency to changes in depth Journal of Vision. 18: 724. DOI: 10.1167/18.10.724

Case Studies

Dichoptic game training in strabismic amblyopia improves the visual evoked response

Blavakis Emmanouil, Jenny Spaho, Marina Chatzea, Angleliki Gleni, Sotiris Plainis (2023). Dichoptic game training in strabismic amblyopia improves the visual evoked response, DOI: 10.7759/cureus

Patents

Interactive system for vision assessment and correction

Blaha, J. J., & Gupta, M. (2017) U.S. Patent No. 9706910. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Method and system for treating binocular anomalies

Benjamin T. Backus, Kenneth J. Ciuffreda, Diana Ludlam (2013) U.S. Patent No. 8602555B2. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Awards

Medical Capital Innovation Competition 2019

1st place, $50k prize

Glaucoma Research Foundation 2018

Perfect Pitch Award, 1st place

Proto Awards 2014

Most Innovative Experience

IEEEVR 2014

Best Research Demo, 2nd place