A/Professor Peter van Wijngaarden, Centre for Eye Research Australia : “The eye as a window to the brain: retinal imaging biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease"
Speaker:
Associate Professor Peter van Wijngaarden
Deputy Director and Principal Investigator, Centre for Eye Research Australia and University of Melbourne
Title: “The eye as a window to the brain: retinal imaging biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease"
Abstract: Retinal imaging has long held the promise of providing biomarkers of diseases of the central nervous system. A variety of ocular imaging biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease have been described, however none have yet been adopted in clinical practice. A/Prof van Wijngaarden and his team have recently reported first in-human evidence of a novel retinal imaging biomarker that is associated with brain amyloid-beta levels. The team has combined non-invasive, in vivo hyperspectral imaging in conjunction with artificial intelligence image analysis methods to identify a retinal signature of Alzheimer’s disease. Additional studies are underway to establish whether this may serve as a low cost and convenient screening tool for the disease and as an adjunct to clinical studies of disease-modifying therapies.
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