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Giovanni Ometto

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Image Processing

School of Health & Medical Sciences Department of Optometry and Visual Science

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Overview

Giovanni was awarded a BSc in Bio-Engineering (2008) and MSc in Biomedical Engineering (2012) from the University of Padova (IT). In 2013 he worked in a company, developing and validating new image analysis algorithms for images of the conjunctiva and eye lids. In late 2013, he began working towards his PhD which he defended in May 2017. As a Marie Curie early stage researcher, his research was based at the Aarhus University Hospital (DK) in collaboration with the University of Lincoln (UK) and focused on image processing of retinal photographs and data analysis. Giovanni joined the Crabb Lab in 2017 as a post-doctoral research fellow and became the lab manager in 2020. His projects at City have been funded by Wellcome Trust, Fight For Sight, Diabetes UK, working in collaboration with industries such as Heidelberg Engineering and Topcon, some of the leading manufacturers of OCT acquisition devices. He is now with the UCL Insititute of Ophthalmology and London North West Healthcare NHS Trust, working as a Senior Data Analyst, but continues to collaborate with the Crabb Lab on several projects.

Qualifications

  • PhD, Aarhus University, Denmark, October 2013 - December 2016
  • Good Clinical Practice, National Institute for Health Research, United Kingdom
  • Biomedical Engineering BSc, MSc Eng, University of Padua, Italy

Employment

  • Honorary Research Fellow, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom, November 2017 - present
  • Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, City, University of London, United Kingdom, February 2017 - present

Publications

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Chapter

  • Al-Diri, B., Calivá, F., Chudzik, P., Ometto, G. and Habib, M. (2019). Diabetic retinopathy and maculopathy lesions. Computational Retinal Image Analysis (pp. 223-243). Elsevier. ISBN 9780081028162.

Conference papers and proceedings (16)

  • Montesano, G., Ometto, G., Crabb, D.P. and Gazzard, G. Five-year visual field outcomes of the HORIZON trial. .
  • Ometto, G., Montesano, G., Chakravarthy, U., Kee, F., Hogg, R.E. and Crabb, D.P. (2021). Fast 3-dimensional estimation of the Foveal Avascular Zone from OCTA. 2021 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC) 17-20 May.doi:10.1109/i2mtc50364.2021.9460087
  • Hogg, R.E., Montesano, G., Ometto, G., Higgins, B., Das, R., Chakravarthy, U.... Crabb, D. Early functional and imaging markers of retinal dysfunction prior to onset of clinically detectable diabetic retinopathy (DR). .
  • Ometto, G., Montesano, G., D'Antona, L., Bremner, F. and Crabb, D.P. A novel, automated measurement of spontaneous vein pulsation from infrared videos of the optic disc. .
  • Pohlmann, D., Terheyden, J.H., Berger, M., Ometto, G., Montesano, G., Neuber, F.... Pleyer, U. (2020). OCT-based automated vitreous inflammation score: a promising biomarker in dexamethasone implant treated uveitis patients. ARVO Annual Meeting 2020 3-7 May, Baltimore, USA.
  • Liu, X., Kale, A., Hui, B., Montesano, G., Capewell, N., Ometto, G.... Denniston, A.K. Test-retest Variability of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) and OCT Angiography in a Mobile OCT Module and level of Agreement with Conventional Table-top OCT. .
  • Ometto, G., Montesano, G., Terheyden, J.H. and Crabb, D.P. Quantification of two dimensional progression velocity in geographic atrophy and its relationship with autofluorescence at the borders. .
  • Coric, D., Ometto, G., Montesanto, G., Denniston, A., Keane, P., Balk, L.... Petzold, A. Vitreous haze as a novel marker for neurodegeneration in MS possibly indicating impairment of the retinal glymphatic system. .
  • Coric, D., Ometto, G., Montesanto, G., Denniston, A., Keane, P., Balk, L.... Crabb, D. Has the prevalence of uveitis in patients with multiple sclerosis been overestimated? .
  • Ometto, G., Moghul, I., Montesano, G., Hunter, A., Pontikos, N., Jones, P.R.... Crabb, D.P. ReLayer: a free, online tool for measuring retinal thickness based on a new automatic method for the segmentation of layers in OCT images. .
  • Jones, P.R. and Ometto, G. (2018). Degraded Reality: Using VR/AR to simulate visual impairments. 2018 IEEE Workshop on Augmented and Virtual Realities for Good (VAR4Good) 18 March.doi:10.1109/var4good.2018.8576885
  • Caliva, F., Hunter, A., Chudzik, P., Ometto, G., Antiga, L. and Al-Diri, B. (2017). A fluid-dynamic based approach to reconnect the retinal vessels in fundus photography. 2017 39th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) 11-15 July.doi:10.1109/embc.2017.8036837
  • Chudzik, P., Al-Diri, B., Caliva, F., Ometto, G., Hunter, A., Styner, M.A.... Angelini, E.D. Learning deep similarity in fundus photography. SPIE Medical Imaging.doi:10.1117/12.2254286
  • Ometto, G., Erlandsen, M., Hunter, A. and Bek, T. The frequency of hemorrhages and microaneurysms in diabetic retinopathy is higher in the upper than the lower hemiretina. .
  • Ometto, G., Calivá, F., Al-Diri, B., Bek, T., Hunter, A., Styner, M.A.... Angelini, E.D. Automated detection of retinal landmarks for the identification of clinically relevant regions in fundus photography. SPIE Medical Imaging.doi:10.1117/12.2216488
  • Ometto, G., Bek, T., Al-Diri, B. and Hunter, A. An algorithm combining two lesion -detection methods of retinal microaneurysms for the reduction of human workload. .

Journal articles (42)