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Okazaki Lab
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A lab that turns smartphones into medical tools and brings them to places that care has not reached.
AboutAbout the lab
Everyday technology, for places medicine does not reach.
The Okazaki Lab is a biomedical engineering lab that applies everyday technology such as smartphones to healthcare and health management.
Medical progress has extended healthy life expectancy, but in remote areas and developing countries many people still cannot receive adequate care.
To address this, the lab turns familiar advanced technologies such as AI and IoT into low-cost, easy-to-use forms and brings them to the field.
Through hands-on building, it tests mechanisms such as ones that allow eye examinations to be performed on the spot, and also explores paths to commercialization.
Key terms
- Biomedical engineering
- A field that uses engineering technology to create devices and systems for diagnosis, treatment, and health management
- IoT
- A system in which everyday devices are connected to the internet and exchange data
- Healthy life expectancy
- The period during which a person can live independently in daily life without needing nursing care
NewsLab news
Associate Professor Okazaki and colleagues report that using a VR headset may make dry eye less likely to occur
A lab student's invention wins a Special Award (President's Award of the National Center for Industrial Property Information and Training) at the FY2024 Patent Contest
A lab student's presentation wins the Short Video Excellence Award and the Excellent Presentation Award at Human Interface Symposium 2024
ResearchResearch themes
For clinical challenges including those in developing countries, the lab investigates how everyday technologies such as smartphones can be applied in the field in forms that are inexpensive and easy to use. It pursues empirical research through building actual devices, and also explores paths to commercialization.
*Illustrative imageMeasuring Eye Prescription with a Smartphone
Devices for checking whether glasses are needed are expensive and can be hard to obtain in developing countries and elsewhere. The lab is developing a system that objectively measures the eye's refractive power using a smartphone's front camera and screen.
*Illustrative imagePlaying Shogi Even Without Sight
So that blind people can enjoy shogi, the lab is making a shogi board and piece set with a function that reads out the positions of the pieces. Through surveys of people who have actually used it and operation experiments, it verifies how easy the set is to use.
MembersFaculty
- Associate ProfessorYoshiro Okazaki
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Covid 19 Doctor Consultation” Mona Hassan Abo-Abda / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Measuring Eye Prescription with a Smartphone: “Medical Instrument Eye Snellen's distant vision chart” Sarindam7 / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Playing Shogi Even Without Sight: “Shogi pieces made of ono-ore (Betula schmidtii)” Karl432 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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