Georgios Leontidis – Progress Report 1

During this period the main goal was to study the previous and the ongoing research on the early detection of diabetic retinopathy and find all the experiments that have been done until now. At the same time I had to attend a few training events and collaboration meetings at the university of Lincoln with local hospitals as well as internal events. I received some images from the partner in Sunderland which were analyzed for finding some indications of changes in the vasculature before and after diabetic retinopathy. In the meantime, I am trying until now to connect and realize how these geometric changes might be connected with the hemodynamic changes that occur due to diabetes mellitus. Currently I am trying to find more images with specific profile (a few images before and a few after diabetic retinopathy with some information of patients’ history). At the university, we are planning to supply a fundus camera in order to recruit some volunteers for having them screened. This means that we will have images and history record of the volunteers, which will assist on the grouping of the results according to some risk factors like age, gender, duration of diabetes, other diseases etc