University of Iowa Health Care Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

Education

• MD, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
• MS, Biomedical Computer Science, University of Amsterdam
• PhD, Imaging, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands

Post Graduate Education

• Resident (Ophthalmology), University Hospital of Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Fellowship (Retina), Vrije Universiteit University Hospital, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Certification

• USMLE
• Iowa Board of Medical Examiners
• Netherlands Ophthalmologic Society

Professional Affiliations

• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
• Associate Director, United States Department of Veteran Affairs Center for Prevention and Treatment of Visual Loss
• Member, Macula Society, 2007-
• Member, American Academy of Ophthalmology, 1998-
• Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1997-
• Member, Biomedical Engineering Committee, International Association of Science and Technology for Development, 2006-
• Committee on Medical Information Technology of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, 2004-
• Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine, working group 9 (ophthalmology), 2000-
• American Telemedicine Association
• European Society of Ophthalmic and Plastic Reconstructive Surgery, 2002-
• Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, 1996-
• Editor, Head and Face Journal, 2004-
• Nederlands Oogheelkundig Gezelschap (Dutch Board of Ophthalmology), 1995-

Research Interest

• Massive, large-scale detection and diagnosis of retinal disease and glaucoma

Current Projects

• Smart, low-cost retinal cameras
• Automated algorithms for retinal image analysis
• Image guided therapy of choroidal neovascularization and diabetic retinopathy
• Computational discovery of phenotype – genotype associations
• Health economics
• Functional imaging of the retina
• Clinical effectiveness of retinal imaging

Related Web sites

• Download here: M.D. Abràmoff, P.J. Magelhaes, S.J. Ram, Image Processing with ImageJ, Biophotonics International, 11 (7), 36-42 (2004); over 2000 citations!
• The still hard to find ultimate review on retinal image analysis, Retinal Imaging and Image Analysis. Abràmoff, MD, Garvin M, Sonka, M. IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering, 3, 169-208, 2010, can be found here.
• ROC: Retina Online Challenge – Online competition for the best microaneurysm detection algorithm, with a standardized set of 100 de-identified color images and reference standard
• DRIVE: Digital Retinal Images for Vessel Extraction – Online comparison retinal vessel detection algorithms, with a standardized set of 40 de-identified fovea centered retinal color images and reference standard
• INSPIRE - Iowa Normative Set for Processing Images of the REtina - online set of 30 pairs of de-identified stereo color images of the optic nerve head, with reference standard, based on 3D OCT. Associated with our article: Li Tang, Mona K. Garvin, Kyungmoo Lee, Wallace L. M. Alward, Young H. Kwon, Michael D. Abràmoff. Robust Multi-Scale Stereo Matching from Fundus Images with Radiometric Differences, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. (Preprint available here)(INSPIRE DATASETS)
• Retinal Image Matching – online set of retinal images for evaluation of retina registration algorithms, with reference standard. Associated with our paper Objective and expert-independent validation of retinal image registration algorithms by a projective imaging distortion model, Med Imag Analysis 14 (4), 2010
• Iowa Retinal Telediagnosis - online diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy
• EyeCheck - online diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy
• iOptics NL
• Bio-medical Imaging in Java Central (not updated since 2007, needs work)
• Iowa Visual Field Reading Center
• Editorial on our research: The Retinator, Ophthalmology Times 35 (13), 2010. | pdf
• My profile at NARCIS Netherlands Academic Research Network
  
  • Some of my articles available via Open Access via NARCIS
• UI Carver College of Medicine Profile | (pdf poster)

Researcher ID