Post by Ahmad Abdelaal

Excited to share that I presented our Ophthalmology research at the UK Eye Genetics Group (UK-EGG) Annual Meeting in Leicester. Our work looks at the automated segmentation of peripheral biomarkers in RPE65 inherited retinal disease. The difficulty is that finding tiny biomarkers within a 16-million-pixel retinal scan is a huge computational challenge. So we adapted and used patch-based segmentation to partition these massive scans into distinct, high-resolution patches. This approach forces the AI to catch obscure peripheral features that standard imaging frameworks miss, which provides the objective tracking needed to establish clearer clinical eligibility criteria for life-changing gene therapies. It was great to learn directly from leading experts about the newest genetic breakthroughs. Thanks to my supervisors Nikolas Pontikos, Birgit Lorenz and Vincent Chan at Eye2Gene, and the UK-EGG committee!