智能手机软件检测眼科疾病.doc

智能手机软件检测眼科疾病 VOA 慢速讲解2011-5-16 第687 期QIHUI 制作可可英语: 1 VOA慢速讲解附字幕:智能手机软件检测眼科疾病 查看原文 第一部分：原文中英对照 This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. More than two hundred eighty million people around the world have vision problems or are blind. The World Health Organization says nine out of ten of them live in developing countries. And eighty percent of the problems can be prevented or cured. Uncorrected cases of near-sightedness, far-sightedness and astigmatism are the leading cause of vision problems. These are called refractive errors. They often go untreated in countries with limited health care systems. But researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a new way to identify eye disorders with a smartphone. They call it Netra, which means eye in Sanskrit but stands for Near Eye Tool for Refractive Assessment. A person downloads software to a phone and attaches a plastic eyepiece over the screen. The user looks into the eyepiece and uses the buttons on the phone to move two lines until they appear as one. The persons vision problem is identified by the number of clicks required to line up the images. The results can be sent to an eye doctor to make glasses. 这里是VOA 特别英语科技报道。 全世界超过2.8 亿人有视觉问题或者完全失 明。世界卫生组织表示，其中九成的人居住 在发展中国家。80%的问题可以预防或者治 愈。 未及时矫正的近视，远视和散光是视觉问题 的主要诱因。这些被称为屈光偏差 (Refractive Error)。在医疗保健资源有限的国 家，这种问题通常都不会进行治疗。 但是麻省理工学院(Massachusetts Institute of Technology，缩写：MIT)的研究人员开发了 一种使用智能手机来诊断眼科疾病的新方 法。这种方法叫做Netra，在梵文中的意思 是“眼睛”，但是代表的是屈光评估检测工具 (Near Eye Tool for Refractive Assessment)。 将软件下载到手机上，并在屏幕上连接一片 塑料的目镜。使用者向目镜内看，使用手机 上的按键来移动两条线，直到这两条线重 叠。 使用者的视觉问题可以通过点击按钮以使 图像重叠所需的次数来鉴别。测试结果会发 送给眼科医生，以便为用户配置眼镜。 VOA 慢速讲解2011-5-16 第687 期QIHUI 制作可可英语: 2 The cost is two dollars and the researchers say the results are as good as a traditional eye exam. The phone app is still being tested and is not yet available. But last month the researchers from the MIT Media Lab won first prize in the Vodafone Americas Foundation Wireless Innovation Project. They will