Diabetes and Retinopathy

Dr. El-Baz is a Professor, University Scholar, and Chair of the Bioengineering Department at the University of Louisville, KY. Dr. El-Baz earned his bachelor's and master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1997 and 2001, respectively. He earned his doctoral degree in electrical engineering from the University of Louisville in 2006. In 2009, Dr. El-Baz was named a Coulter Fellow for his contributions to the field of biomedical translational research. Dr. El-Baz has 15 years of hands-on experience in the fields of bio-imaging modeling and non-invasive computer-assisted diagnosis systems. He has authored or coauthored more than 450 technical articles (105 journals, 15 books, 50 book chapters, 175 refereed-conference papers, 100 abstracts, and 15 US patents). Dr. Jasjit Suri, PhD, MBA, is a renowned innovator and scientist. He received the Director General’s Gold Medal in 1980 and is a Fellow of several prestigious organizations, including the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Dr. Suri has been honored with lifetime achievement awards from Marcus, NJ, USA, and Graphics Era University, India. He has published nearly 300 peer-reviewed AI articles, 100 books, and holds 100 innovations/trademarks, achieving an H-index of nearly 100 with about 43,000 citations. Dr. Suri has served as chairman of AtheroPoint, IEEE Denver section, and as an advisory board member to various healthcare industries and universities globally.

• 1. Vascular macular capillary plexus in patient with Type 1 diabetes with no retinopathy are correlated with OCT volume changes2. Ultrahigh Speed OCT Angiography of Retinal and Choriocapillaris Alterations in DiabeticPatients with and without Retinopathy Using Swept Source Optical Coherence Tomography3. Evaluation of subfoveal choroidal thickness in children with type 1 diabetes mellitus: an EDI- OCT study4. Determinants of Quantitative Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography Metrics in Patients with Diabetes 5. Author Response: Quantitative Retinal Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography in Patients with Diabetes without Diabetic Retinopathy Letters6. Intraoperative OCT-assisted Surgery for Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy in the DISCOVER Study7. Screening of diabetic retinopathy and maculopathy in Lebanese population using retinography and SD-OCT: The role of telemedicine8. Structural Changes by Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography in Patients with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus9. Study of Retinal Nerve Fibre Layer Thickness in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus Using Fourier Domain Optical Coherence Tomography10. Assessment of the tear meniscus using optical coherence tomography in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus11. Assessment of characteristics of neointimal hyperplasia after drug-eluting stent implantation in patients with diabetes mellitus: an optical coherence tomography analysis