Efficacy of Sodium Valproate in the Treatment of Photosensitive Epilepsy (PSE) and the Probable Reasons for the Persistence of Occipital Spikes by Ebere C. Anyanwu, John E. Ehiri, Andrew W. Campbell

“…It was concluded that the possible causes of VPA's inefficacy in abolishing occipital spikes in PSE was not necessarily due to a failure in IPSP, but rather it could be due to a time-dependent failure of certain cells of the visual system to respond positively to the VPA's modulatory activity, probably involving the ionic channels, neurotransmitters, and the second messenger systems. …”
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Adaptation optimizes sensory encoding for future stimuli. by Jiang Mao, Constantin A Rothkopf, Alan A Stocker

“…Taken together, our results suggest that adaptation-induced changes in encoding accuracy prepare the visual system for future stimuli.…”
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Prevalence of amblyopia among adult population and their various impacts on life: An experience over a period of eight months by Sujit Das, Sukhdayal S. Shergill

“…Background: Amblyopia is due to insufficient development of the visual system in early childhood and affects 1% and 2% population of most developed countries. …”
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Deep learning-based prediction of multi-level just noticeable distortion by Haifeng XU, Hongkui WANG, Haibing YIN, Chuqiao CHEN

“…Visual just noticeable distortion (JND) directly reflects the sensitivity of the human visual system to visual signal noise, and is widely used in image and video processing.Aiming at the multilevel prediction problem of video JND threshold, it was transformed into the prediction problem of satisfied user ratio (SUR) curve, and a feature fusion-based SUR curve prediction model was proposed.The model was mainly divided into key frame extraction module, feature extraction and fusion module, and SUR score regression module.In the key frame extraction module, according to the visual perception mechanism, the spatial-temporal domain perception complexity was proposed and used as the video key frame judgment index.In the feature extraction and fusion module, a multi-scale dense residual network was proposed based on dense residual block (RDB) to realize image feature extraction and multi-scale fusion.The experimental results show that the proposed SUR curve prediction model is overall better than the existing models in terms of JND prediction accuracy and reduces the time cost by 8.1% on average in terms of operational efficiency.Meanwhile, the model can also be used to predict other layers of JND thresholds, which can be directly applied to video multilevel perceptual coding optimization.…”
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Tracing the Divine Office: On Frames and Patterns in Medieval Latin Psalter Manuscripts by Karin Becker

“…The aesthetic and content-related keys (or in this case, more appropriately, “patterns”) form a complex visual system through which the manuscript can be made useable for certain practices and through which a specific use is immediately suggested to the viewer. …”
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Hierarchical Feature Extraction Assisted with Visual Saliency for Image Quality Assessment by Ruizhe Deng, Yang Zhao, Yong Ding

“…Quality-aware features that human visual system is sensitive to are extracted to describe image quality comprehensively. …”
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A Novel Psychovisual Threshold on Large DCT for Image Compression by Nur Azman Abu, Ferda Ernawan

“…The quantization process is used as a threshold of the human visual system tolerance to reduce the amount of encoded transform coefficients. …”
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Video temporal perception characteristics based just noticeable difference model by Yafen1 XING, Haibing YIN, Hongkui WANG, Qionghua LUO

“…., which were used to characterize the temporal characteristics.Probability density functions for these feature parameters in the perception sense according to the HVS(human visual system) characteristics were proposed, and uniformly mapping the heterogeneous feature parameters to the scales of self-information and information entropy to achieve a homogeneous fusion measurement.The coupling method of visual attention and masking was explored from the perspective of energy distribution, and the temporal-domain JND weight model was constructed accordingly.On the basis of the spatial JND threshold, the temporal domain weights was integrated to develop a more accurate spatial-temporal JND model.In order to evaluate the performance of the spatiotemporal JND model, a subjective quality evaluation experiment was conducted.Experimental results justify the effectiveness of the proposed model.…”
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Reversible data hiding scheme based on pixel-value differencing in dual images by Pyung-Han Kim, Kwan-Woo Ryu, Ki-Hyun Jung

“…Also, the proposed scheme maintains the degree of image distortion that cannot be perceived by the human visual system.…”
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Foveated Denoising for Ray Tracing Rendering by Daiyun Guo, Yan Zhang, Xubo Yang

“…Foveated graphics allocate computational load in light of the non-uniform nature of the human visual system (HVS), accelerating the scene rendering of virtual reality (VR). …”
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Lithium-Ion Battery Capacity Estimation: A Method Based on Visual Cognition by Yujie Cheng, Laifa Tao, Chao Yang

“…NSCT imitates the multichannel characteristic of the human visual system (HVS) that provides multiresolution, localization, directionality, and shift invariance. …”
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Potential Role of Synaptic Activity to Inhibit LTD Induction in Rat Visual Cortex by Matthew R. Stewart, Hans C. Dringenberg

“…We examined if levels of background electrocorticographic (ECoG) activity influence LTD induction in the thalamocortical visual system of rats under very deep urethane anesthesia, inducing a brain state of reduced spontaneous cortical activity. …”
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Threshold Values of Myopic Anisometropia Causing Loss of Stereopsis by Maciej Gawęcki

“…The inclusion criteria were as follows: lack of any functional or morphological ophthalmological disorders, or detectable damage to the visual system, anisometropia equal or less than 0.25 D in a spherical equivalent, and full stereoscopic vision for near and for distance. …”
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Image Quality Evaluation Based on Gradient, Visual Saliency, and Color Information by Hua-Wen Chang, Xiao-Dong Bi, Cheng-Yang Du, Chang-Wei Mao, Ming-Hui Wang

“…Visual saliency can find the most attractive regions to the human visual system in a given image. These attractive image regions are more strongly correlated with image quality results. …”
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Studying Cortical Plasticity in Ophthalmic and Neurological Disorders: From Stimulus-Driven to Cortical Circuitry Modeling Approaches by Joana Carvalho, Remco J. Renken, Frans W. Cornelissen

“…Unsolved questions in computational visual neuroscience research are whether and how neurons and their connecting cortical networks can adapt when normal vision is compromised by a neurodevelopmental disorder or damage to the visual system. This question on neuroplasticity is particularly relevant in the context of rehabilitation therapies that attempt to overcome limitations or damage, through either perceptual training or retinal and cortical implants. …”
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Combination of High-Dose Intravenous Immunoglobulins and Itraconozole in Treating Chronic Mycotic Demyelinating Optic Neuritis by Andrew W. Campbell, Ebere C. Anyanwu, Aristo Vojdani

“…Mycotic demyelinating optic neuritis is a neurological disorder of the visual system caused by mycotoxins released by indoor toxic molds. …”
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Early life stress shifts critical periods and causes precocious visual cortex development. by Janet Poplawski, Tony Montina, Gerlinde A S Metz

“…Thus, ELS may accelerate visual system development, resulting in premature opening and closing of critical period plasticity. …”
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Lutein, Zeaxanthin, and meso-Zeaxanthin in the Clinical Management of Eye Disease by Nicole K. Scripsema, Dan-Ning Hu, Richard B. Rosen

“…Lutein, zeaxanthin, and meso-zeaxanthin are xanthophyll carotenoids found within the retina and throughout the visual system. The retina is one of the most metabolically active tissues in the body. …”
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Design and Evaluation of Photo-Induced Biofeedback Fabric for the Enhancement in Sleeping Sense by Wei-Cheng Chu, Hsin-Ju Lin, Shu-Ping Chiu

“…Guiding the light into the optical fiber, it will emit out of the optical fiber and stimulate our visual system to change the form of brain wave. Finally, EEG and sleeping scale were applied to evaluate the effect of enhancing sleeping sense. …”
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Setting the tone: crossmodal emotional face-voice combinations in continuous flash suppression by Ulrich W. D. Müller, Antje B. M. Gerdes, Georg W. Alpers

“…Emotional stimuli are preferentially processed in the visual system, in particular, fearful faces. Evidence comes from unimodal studies with emotional faces, although real-life emotional encounters typically involve input from multiple sensory channels, such as a face paired with a voice. …”
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