{"id":6911,"date":"2021-08-25T12:25:43","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T04:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/mse\/?post_type=nus-news&p=6911"},"modified":"2022-12-15T14:44:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T06:44:11","slug":"glaucoma-sensor-team-wins-national-dyson-design-award","status":"publish","type":"nus-news","link":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/mse\/news\/glaucoma-sensor-team-wins-national-dyson-design-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Glaucoma sensor team wins national Dyson design award"},"content":{"rendered":"
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HOPES (Home Eye Pressure E-skin Sensor) is a wearable device that enables patients to do intraocular pressure (IOP) tests themselves<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A team from NUS Engineering has been selected as the national winner of the annual James Dyson Award, for their design for an easy to use at home glaucoma test.<\/p>\n

The winning design, called HOPES (Home Eye Pressure E-skin Sensor), is a wearable biomedical device that uses advanced patent pending sensor technology and artificial intelligence to enable patients to do intraocular pressure (IOP) tests themselves, conveniently and with a much higher degree of accuracy than currently available tests.<\/p>\n

The team members behind HOPES are Kelu Yu and Si Li (both PhD students,\u00a0Materials Science and Engineering<\/a>), and David Lee (Research Assistant and Electrical and Computer Engineering graduate). They were supervised and supported by President\u2019s Asst Prof Benjamin Tee (Acting Deputy Head for Innovation & Outreach at Materials Science and Engineering).<\/p>\n

Yu Kelu, co-inventor of HOPES, said the inspiration came after her father was diagnosed with glaucoma, and that she saw a need for an easy to use and reliable solution that could empower patients to manage their condition.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy father was diagnosed with glaucoma in 2019 and suffered from constant eye pain and headache. This personal experience motivated me to delve deeper into the disease and treatments.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Yu Kelu, co-inventor of HOPES, says she was inspired to develop the device after her father was diagnosed with glaucoma<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To use the device, patients wear the HOPES glove which has a pressure detecting sensor at its fingertip and pair it with a profile in the HOPES App. Patients then press the fingertip on the centre of the eyelid until hearing \u2018test complete\u2019 notification.<\/p>\n

The sensor can capture dynamic pressure data with sub-millisecond precision. This data is processed by machine learning algorithms to continuously and accurately compute users\u2019 IOP, which is then presented to users on devices such as a smart watch or other paired platforms, or uploaded to the cloud to be accessed remotely by clinicians.<\/p>\n

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