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AI helps bring clarity to LASIK patients facing cataract surgery
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AI helps bring clarity to LASIK patients facing cataract surgery

AI helps bring clarity to LASIK patients facing cataract surgery

December 29, 2023
AI helps bring clarity to LASIK patients facing cataract surgery
With an optical bench, researchers from the University of Rochester's Center for Visual Science use technology originally developed for astronomy, such as adaptive optics mirrors and spatial light modulators, to manipulate the optics of the eye as an intraocular lens would. Credit: University of Rochester photo / J. Adam Fenster

While millions of people have undergone LASIK eye surgery since it became commercially available in 1989, patients sometimes develop cataracts later in life and require new corrective lenses to be implanted in their eyes. With an increasing number of intraocular lens options becoming available, scientists have developed computational simulations to help patients and surgeons see the best options.