Pleasanton, CA. Following an exciting end to the season, Voxeleron’s sponsored softball team tied first place in their division of the Pleasanton Girls Softball League . Head coach, Jamie, a former Florida State softball player, said, “Phew, that was close.” First basegirl, Amali, was equally relieved: “Can we have the BBQ now?”. All in all it [...]
I recently attended the 2nd Annual Glaucoma 360: New Horizons Forum. As explained by the organizers, it was created to highlight unmet clinical needs in the field of glaucoma. To do this, the forum is open to academia and industry, bringing together known leaders in science, business, venture capital and the FDA to discuss emerging [...]
Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) has dramatically changed diagnostics in ophthalmology. The first publication of cross-sectional images of the human retina occurred in [Huang 1991], and its commercial introduction soon followed in 1996. Such cross-sectional images of the retina allow clinicians to quantify retinal thickness changes, which relates directly to macular pathologies. Retinal layer segmentation is [...]
The development of the optical nerve head (ONH) segmentation algorithm is something I really enjoyed working on as it involved considerable inter-disciplinary participation to complete. Primarily this came from Dr. Douglas Anderson and Dr. Donald Budenz, both then at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute. Dr. Anderson patiently tutored me on the anatomy of the optic [...]