Heiferman Laboratory

The Heiferman laboratory studies novel ophthalmic imaging methods to study the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment of ocular oncologic and retinal disease.

Our Work

Publications

Gupta P, Kao E, Sheth N, Alahmadi R, Heiferman MJ. Gaze Characteristics Using a Three-Dimensional Heads-Up Display During Cataract Surgery. Journal of Eye Movement Research. 2025; 18(6):68. https://doi.org/10.3390/jemr18060068

Sureshkumar H, Kolla S, Erukulla R, Ma W, Alahmadi R, Sun J, Heiferman MJ. Effect of Social Determinants of Health and Geography on Uveal Melanoma. Clin Ophthalmol. 2025;19:4597-4611, https://doi.org/10.2147/OPTH.S561118

Gupta P, Kao E, Sheth N, Alahmadi R, Heiferman MJ. Assessment of Surgeon Gaze Characteristics During Pars Plana Vitrectomy and Membrane Peeling. Journal of VitreoRetinal Diseases. In Publication. Manuscript No. JVRD-25-0159.R1.

Tasso, V., Ganesh, S., Iddir, S., AlAhmadi, R., Heiferman, M., Yi, D. Uveal Pigmented Lesion Classification, Detection, and Segmentation: A Comparative Analysis of Machine Learning Tasks. Translational Vision Science & Technology (2025)

Bitra J, Sureshkumar H, Eathara AV, Alahmadi R, Heiferman MJ. Risk Factors for Recurrent Vitreous Hemorrhage After 25-Gauge Pars Plana Vitrectomy in Patients With Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy. J Vitreoretin Dis. Published online July 8, 2025. doi:10.1177/24741264251351545

Dadzie, A., Iddir, S., Ganesh, S., Ebrahimi, B., Rahimi, M., Abtahi, M., Son, T., Heiferman, M., Yao, X. Artificial Intelligence in the diagnosis of uveal melanoma: advances and applications. Experimental Biology and Medicine (2025)

Gupta P, Sheth N, AlAhmadi R, Yao X, Heiferman MJ. The Effect of Experience on Visual Search Patterns in Retinal Imaging Analysis. Ophthalmic Surgery, Lasers and Imaging Retina. 2025;56(6):336-344. doi:10.3928/23258160-20250228-03

Ma, J., Iddir, S., Ganesh, S., Yi, D., Heiferman, M. Automated segmentation for early detection of uveal melanoma. Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology (2024)

Dadzie, A., Iddir, S., Abtahi, M., Ebrahimi, B., Le, D., Ganesh, S., Son, T., Heiferman, M., Yao, X. Color fusion effect on deep learning classification of uveal melanoma. Eye (2024)

Sureshkumar H, Eathara A, Datta A, Alahmadi R, Nguyen RH, Heiferman MJ. Association Between Uveal Melanoma and Allostatic Load. Anticancer Res. 2024;44(8):3375-3380. doi:10.21873/anticanres.17158

Iddir, S., Love, J., Ma, J., Bryan, J., Ganesh, S., Heiferman, M., Yi, D. Predicting Malignant Transformation of Choroidal Nevi Using Machine Learning. Research Square (2023)

Abtahi, M., Ebrahimi, B., Dadzie, A. K., Rahimi, M., Kolla, S., Hsieh, Y. T., Heiferman, M. J., Lim, J. I.,Yao, X. Deep learning segmentation of periarterial and perivenous capillary-free zones in optical coherence tomography angiography. Journal of biomedical optics (2024)