# Center for Biomedical OCT Research and Translation

> **NIH NIH P41** · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · 2021 · $350,576

## Abstract

Project Summary:
Artificial intelligence in general and machine learning specifically, represent tremendous
potential for medical imaging. Multiple projects within our Center for Biomedical OCT Research
and Translation include the development and training of machine learning algorithms for
interpreting, quantifying, and improving OCT. Through P41 support, we have previously
established a collaboration with MIT Computer Science Professor Polina Golland and presently
co-mentor a post-doctoral fellow with her. We have recently conducted interviews with
candidates to fill this fellowship and will use supplemental funding to bring in a new fellow so
that we maintain progress in this important technical area, which underpins multiple TRD
projects. In addition, we will expand on our dissemination efforts through enhancements to our
website and through new social media channels. Finally, we will maintain important recent
progress that has been made in the development of high repetition rate wavelength swept
lasers. Through an external vendor, we have developed high performance, chirped period fiber
Bragg gratings. It is important to maintain the momentum of this project as the laser
developments will enable multiple different TRD projects.
Relevance:
The Center for Biomedical OCT Research and Translation has been highly productive in the
development of novel imaging technologies, instruments, and applications. Several of our
projects have led to commercial medical devices that improve health care. We have also been
very successful in service projects that have made sophisticated imaging instruments available
to a wide spectrum of collaborators in our Center and also in remote research settings.
Maintaining these core efforts through an interim year will permit our programs to continue
without deceleration in our next competitive grant cycle.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10469794
- **Project number:** 3P41EB015903-10S2
- **Recipient organization:** MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL
- **Principal Investigator:** Brett E Bouma
- **Activity code:** P41 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $350,576
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2011-07-21 → 2022-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10469794

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10469794, Center for Biomedical OCT Research and Translation (3P41EB015903-10S2). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-26 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10469794. Licensed CC0.

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