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Healthcare
Healthcare
Eye tracking technology empowers quick and early diagnosis of potentially life altering diseases and helps in the long-term treatment of certain disorders and disabilities.
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Medical research
Exploring biomarkers in medical research
There is a strong connection between deficits in eye movements and various underlying brain disorders and injuries. Medical researchers use eye tracking to explore biomarkers for cognitive impairment, enabling new tools for diagnosis, rehabilitation, and treatment.
Eye tracking transforms medical research
Uncover the subtle cognitive and emotional responses that traditional methods miss — streamline trials, enhance patient understanding, and accelerate insights in clinical research.
- 71%
of clinical assessments rely on verbal or written responses, which may not reflect real-time cognitive or perceptual processes.
- 64%
of neurological studies face challenges
in detecting subtle cognitive impairments. - 59%
of surgical training programs lack tools to measure visual expertise and decision-making.
Measurement
What you can measure with eye tracking
Eye tracking solutions with a dedicated application, like our software Tobii Pro Lab, can further process the data to draw valuable conclusions on cognitive, behavioral, and oculomotor deficits, including:
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Attention allocation
Measure attentional processes using fixation duration and location.
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Executive functions
Study the brain's ability to execute or suppress reflexive eye movements with saccade and anti-saccade tests.
Oculomotor system
Measure a person’s ability to fixate on a moving object using smooth-pursuit tasks.
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Emotional valence and arousal
Assess emotional responses and cognitive workload based on pupillary responses.
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Reading ability
Capture dyslexia or age-related changes in reading behavior during a reading task.
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Visual perception
Examine visual search and scene exploration efficiency in a free-viewing task.
Configurations
Research setups for clinical studies
Screen-based for the lab
For lab environments, our screen-based eye trackers, Tobii Pro Spectrum and Tobii Pro Fusion, produce visual stimuli on a screen and work together with Tobii Pro Lab to deliver insights on study participant reactions.
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Screen-based for the field
You can connect the plug-and-play Tobii Pro Fusion eye tracker to any screen at a hospital, clinic, or research center to collect data in the field in a nonintrusive way. Works together with Tobii Pro Lab to deliver insights on behavior.
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Wearable for the real world
Designed for on-the-go data capture, our Tobii Pro Glasses 3 wearable eye tracker allows patients to interact and move around freely, and enables you to design studies that closely reflect real-world scenarios — for the lab and the field.
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Standalone for the lab
If your study requires that patients observe or interact with physical objects or another person, you can use Tobii Pro Spectrum in standalone mode. Works together with Tobii Pro Lab to deliver insights on behavior.
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Domains
Fields of research
Eye tracking can measure subtle eye movements that are linked to cognitive impairment and has become instrumental in clinical research, in areas such as:
Neurodegenerative disorders
Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Huntington’s.
Neuropsychiatric disorders
Depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, and eating-disorders.
Neurological conditions
Concussion, traumatic brain injury, and stroke.
Ophthalmology
Visual field, lazy eye, and strabismus.
Applications
Our healthcare solutions
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Use cases
Deepen your understanding of clinical studies
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Screen based
Clinical research — Use cases
Eye tracking elucidates disease development by capturing subtle changes in eye movements linked to brain and eye disorders. It aids clinical researchers in identifying new biomarkers and creating assessment tools.
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Customer stories
Tracking eye movements to diagnose Parkinson’s disease
Karolinska Institute explored the possibility of using eye tracking as a prospective diagnostic tool for Parkinson’s disease, and their quest yielded exciting results.
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Customer stories
Eye tracking in visual perception analysis for Alzheimer's disease patients
Researchers from the National University of Colombia (UNAL) analyzed eye movement in seven patients with Alzheimer's disease.
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Customer stories
Eye tracking as a diagnosis tool for eye movement disorders—a look at nystagmus
This study focuses on eye movement disorders, in particular nystagmus, and the possibility of using eye tracking as an established form of diagnosis tool.
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Learn article
4 methods to assess Alzheimer’s with eye tracking
This learn article presents four ways eye tracking could aid early Alzheimer’s assessment.
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Customer stories
Eye tracking used to understand Tourette syndrome
Researchers from the Cardiff School of Geography and Planning in the United Kingdom used Tobii Pro Glasses to understand the occurrence of compulsive behavior among people with Tourette syndrome.
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Customer stories
Eye tracking for vision research
Cardiff University's School of Optometry and Vision Sciences used eye tracking from Tobii to explore eye movement in people with sight issues. The researchers looked at how environmental factors affected vision deficits.
The fundamentals of eye tracking
This guide introduces the fundamentals of eye tracking, covering key concepts, technologies, and practical applications across a variety of research contexts
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Scientific publications
Did you know that over 15,000 scientific publications feature
Tobii eye tracking technology?
Discover the latest trends in eye tracking for clinical and medical
research by exploring our scientific publication library.
Resources & community
Everything you need to get started
Free training, open-source tools, and direct support, designed to get you from unboxing to publishable results as fast as possible.
Tobii Academy
Free online learning platform with structured courses covering every stage of eye tracking research, from fundamental concepts to advanced analysis techniques.
→ Eye tracking fundamentals and methodology
→ Experiment design best practices
→ Tobii Pro Lab software training
→ Data analysis and interpretation
→ Certification tracks
Open-source research tools
50+ community-curated tools, experiment scripts, and integration libraries across the full eye tracking workflow. PsychoPy, MATLAB, Python, LSL, and more.
Tobii Connect support portal
Knowledge base, firmware updates, troubleshooting guides, and direct support from Tobii's technical team. Your first stop for any hardware or software question.
→ Product setup and troubleshooting guides
→ Firmware and software downloads
→ Data quality methodology documentation
→ Direct ticket support for registered products
→ Sample projects and demo recordings