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Retinal imaging, image processing, automated image analysis, machine learning, medical devices, ophthalmology, eye health care, eye diseases, systemic diseases apparent in the eye.
Research Themes:
Automated image analysis for feature detection and disease classification.,Diseases of the eye, especially the major retinal diseases: Diabetic Retinopathy, Age-Related Macular Degeneration and Glaucoma.,Systemic diseases apparent in the eye: vascular diseases and neurodegenerative diseases.,Development of novel optical imaging devices for retinal imaging: functional optical coherence tomography, spectral imaging and multi-modal imaging.,Informatics and Computer Science: parallel and cloud computing, algorithm performance and spatial data integration.
Key Publications:
Diabetic Retinopathy Severity and Peripheral Lesions Are Associated with Nonperfusion on Ultrawide Field Angiography (P. S. Silva, A. J. Dela Cruz, M. G. Ledesma, J. van Hemert, A. Radwan, J. D. Cavallerano, L. M. Aiello, J. K. Sun, L. P. Aiello), In Ophthalmology, 2015
Measuring the precise area of peripheral retinal non-perfusion using ultra-widefield imaging and its correlation with the ischaemic index (C. S. Tan, M. C. Chew, J. van Hemert, M. A. Singer, D. Bell, S. R. Sadda), In Br J Ophthalmol, 2015.
Blood vessel segmentation and width estimation in ultra-wide field scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (E. Pellegrini, G. Robertson, E. Trucco, T.J. MacGillivray, C. Lupascu, J. van Hemert, M.C. Williams, D.E. Newby, E.J.R. van Beek, G. Houston), In Biomed. Opt. Express, OSA, volume 5, 2014.
Precise montaging and metric quantification of retinal surface area from ultra-widefield fundus photography and fluorescein angiography. (D.E. Croft, J. van Hemert, C.C. Wykoff, D. Clifton, M. Verhoek, A. Fleming, D.M. Brown), In Ophthalmic Surg Lasers Imaging Retina, volume 45, 2014.
The DATA Bonanza: Improving Knowledge Discovery for Science, Engineering and Business (M.P. Atkinson, R. Baxter, P. Brezany, O. Corcho, M. Galea, J. van Hemert, M. Parsons, D. Snelling), (Albert Y. Zamaya (series), ed.), John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2013.
Automatically Identifying and Annotating Mouse Embryo Gene Expression Patterns (L. Han, J.I. van Hemert, R.A. Baldock), In Bioinformatics, volume 27, 2011.
An Open Source Toolkit for Medical Imaging De-Identification (D. Rodriguez González, T. Carpenter, J.I. van Hemert, J. Wardlaw), In European Radiology, volume 20, 2010.
Collaborators:
Dr Tom MacGillivray, University of Edinburgh
Prof Emanuele Trucco, University of Dundee
Prof Edwin van Beek, University of Edinburgh
Dr Bal Dhilon, University of Edinburgh & NHS Lothian
Dr Paolo S. Silva, Harvard University
Dr SriniVas Sadda, UCLA
Dr Colin Tan, Singapore National Eye Center