Image analysis using customised computer software
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Study of the potential for computerised image analysis to create new and novel clinically useful measures for assessing ophthalmic pathology and to offer additional clues into the prognosis and optimal therapeutic management of different pathologies.
IRAS ID
152148
Contact name
Konstantinos Balaskas
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Trust
Research summary
This research will study how novel computerised measures can give us useful clinical information about patients with retinal disease such as macular degeneration, diabetes and vein occlusions, inflammatory, genetic or degenerative disease. Various measures of computerised analysis of ocular images including colour images, angiographic images and optical coherence tomography images have been devised. We will investigate how these and other novel measures stemming from image analysis may combine to give useful, supplementary and novel information about the clinical state of the patient’s eye or relative efficacy of various treatment options. We will also develop bespoke image analysis software to be used in this research project.
REC name
London - Bromley Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
15/LO/0619
Date of REC Opinion
31 Mar 2015
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion