Udayakumar Karuppanan, PhD

Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, PhD, Biomedical Engineering

University of Alabama at Birmingham, Postdoctoral Fellow, Ophthalmology and vision science

Dr. Karuppanan is a researcher in the field of biomedical imaging. He has particular interest in the optical imaging devices development, lens design and development and image processing. His main research focus is on the capturing the light which interact with the tissue to identify the pathological condition of the same. He had experience in developing the laser interferometry based digital imaging systems, laser speckle imaging system and optical coherence tomography system for the application of breast cancer screening, ophthalmologic intervention for glaucoma and multiple sclerosis diseases respectively.

Optical coherence tomography, Laser optics imaging systems, Image processing, tissue phantom, ultrasound testing.

• Udayakumar, N. Sujatha, and A. R. Ganesan, “Quantitative assessment of soft tissue deformation using digital speckle pattern interferometry: studies on phantom breast models,” SPIE, Journal of Medical Imaging, 4(1), 016001-1-016001-9, 2017 [doi:10.1117/1.JMI.4.1.016001]
• Massimo A. Fazio, Stuart K. Gardiner, Luigi Bruno, Meredith Hubbard, Gianfranco Bianco, Udayakumar Karuppanan, Jihee Kim, Mustapha El Hamdaoui, Rafael Grytz J. Crawford Downs Christopher A. Girkin “Histologic validation of optical coherence tomography-based three-dimensional morphometric measurements of the human optic nerve head: Methodology and preliminary results” Experimental Eye Research 2021 Jan 28;205:108475. doi: 10.1016/j.exer.2021.108475. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33516762.
• Jihee Kim, Stuart K Gardiner, Andrea Ramazzotti, Udayakumar Karuppanan, Luigi Bruno, Christopher A Girkin, J. Crawford Downs and Massimo A. Fazio “Strain by Virtual Extensometers and Video-imaging Optical Coherence Tomography as a Repeatable Metric for IOP-Induced Optic Nerve Head Deformations” Experimental Eye Research, Experimental Eye Research 2021 Aug 8;org/10.1016/j.exer.2021.108724.
• Girkin, Christopher A. and Garner, Mary Anne and Fazio, Massimo A. and Clark, Mark and Karuppanan, Udayakumar and Hubbard, Meredith and Bianco, Gianfranco and Hubbard, Seth and Fortune, Brad and Alecia, Gross K., “Retinal Electrophysiologic Response to IOP Elevation in Brain-Dead Organ Donors” https://ssrn.com/abstract=4234251or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4234251.
• Massimo A. Fazio, Gianfranco Bianco, Udayakumar Karuppanan, Meredith Hubbard, Luigi Bruno, Christopher A. Girkin., “The Effect of Negative Pressure on IOP in the Living Human Eye”, medRxiv preprint, June 29, 2022 doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.06.27.22276880.
• Massimo A. Fazio, Christopher A. Girkin , Mary Anne Garner , Stuart K. Gardiner , Mark Clark , Meredith Hubbard, Udayakumar Karuppanan, Gianfranco Bianco , Luigi Bruno., “Displacement of the Lamina Cribrosa with Acute Intraocular Pressure Increase in Brain-dead Organ Donors”, Investigative ophthalmology & visual science 2023, doi:https://doi.org/10.1167/iovs.64.15.19