A Low-cost Automated and Noninvasive Tool for the Assessment of Cognition in Infants and Toddlers

In this fast track SBIR projectKoronis Biomedical TechnologiesKBTwill develop a low cost neuro cognitive assessment tool for infants and pre school childrenNon invasive neuro cognitive assessments continue to be a very importance tool for monitoring infants and children to track normal developing milestonesuncovering cognitive deficits and evaluate treatment effectivenessLow costand easy to use tools that are standardized and widely accessible with cross culturally appropriate designs for resource limited settings are lowCurrent assessments typically require highly trained personnel to perform and interpret testing measuresKBT in collaboration its research partners will develop a set of interactive assessment videos that operate on low cost commercially available tabletsApple IPAD and Android based tabletsThe age appropriate videos will automatically evaluate the cognitive assessment across multiple domains using highly accurate infrared eyetracking hardware software directly interfaced with the tabletThe infrared eye tracking technology is based upon and an evolution of very sophisticated and well established methods used in neuro cognitive studies at university research labsIn phase Ia human pilot feasibility study will be performed using one cognitive domain setexecutive functionThe phase II activities will focus on finalizing the pre production prototype systemfinalizing and incorporating a full set of cognitive domainsperforming a human validation study along with a comprehensive normative study