The 4th Annual NIDEK IMAGE OF THE YEAR Award

The 4th Annual NIDEK IMAGE OF THE YEAR Award has ended in a great success. Thank you for your visit.

 

 

Grand Prix
20/25, for How Long?

Marlon Rafael García Roa, MD
Instituto Mexicano de Oftalmologia, Mexico
NIDEK is pleased to announce the winners of the 4th Annual NIDEK IMAGE OF THE YEAR Award. The contest themed “invisible to visible” is held yearly and this year featured diabetic retinopathy (DR) cases which often require examination of the fovea to the extreme periphery. The Ultra Wide Field imaging capability of the Mirante Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope (NIDEK) allows evaluation of subtle clinical pathology in very fine detail for thorough prognostication of diabetic retinopathy.
Eye care professionals worldwide voted online and onsite at AAO 2023 to choose an excellent image captured by the Mirante. The Grand Prix winning submission is “20/25, for How Long?” from Marlon Rafael García Roa, MD, of the Instituto Mexicano de Oftalmologia, Mexico. 

We congratulate Dr. Roa on winning the 4th Annual NIDEK IMAGE OF THE YEAR Award and thank them for sharing their exceptional experience with the Mirante. We look forward to future collaboration.

Dr. Marlon Rafael García Roa (right) and S4Optik Managing Director LATAM, distributor in Mexico (left)

View the full interview on Retina Today Journal!

 

Comments from Dr. Marlon Rafael García Roa

It is an honor for me to receive the NIDEK award for image of the year, to have participated and competed with many high-quality images from colleagues around the world, presenting a case of a pathology, which is unfortunately, increasingly common in our midst.
The Mirante platform is a device that, due to its multimodality and ease of use, allows us to carry out the most complete structural and functional evaluation of our patients with different retinal pathologies, increasing the effectiveness of diagnosis due to its ultra-wide field and therefore making it more useful for the treatment and timely follow-up of our patients on a daily basis.

 

2nd and 3rd place images

We have received so many excellent submissions from clinicians worldwide and are delighted to present the 2nd and 3rd place winners exclusively here. The 2nd place was a two-way tie.

 

2nd Place
Not enough laser

José Gerardo García-Aguirre, MD
Asociacion para Evitar la Ceguera en Mexico, Mexico
2nd Place
Diabetic Retina
Roberto DG Maliwat, MD, DBPO
Nueva Ecija Eye and Laser Center Inc., Philippines

3rd Place
“Laser scratched canvas sparkled with red blots” – PDR with PRP laser spots and a localized preretinal hemorrhage

 

Horia T. Stanca, MD, PhD, FEBO, and Antonia Elena Ranetti, MD
“Carol Davila” University of Medicine, Romania

Image gallery of all submissions

 

Submission & Judging

＜Submission Requirements＞

  • Images have to conform to the theme of this contest, “invisible to visible” new findings with Mirante
  • Case: Diabetic Retinopathy (DR)
  • Modality: 163°*1 Ultra Wide Field color fundus images captured with Mirante
    or panorama images composed with the 163 °*1 Ultra Wide Field color fundus images
  • Image format: Bitmap (Max. 1GB)
  • Number of submissions: Maximum of 2 images per person
  • A brief case description
  • Patient consent for submitting images to this online contest*2

*1 Measured from the center of the eye.
*2 Prior to submitting to NIDEK, patient data must be removed to maintain strict patient confidentiality/anonymity.

＜Judging＞

Eye care professionals voted on the submissions between October 25th and November 30th, 2023.

 

You submit/vote, We donate

In response to submissions and votes, we made a donation to the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB). We appreciate all the participations supporting this charity.
Featured Product
Mirante Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope

 

 

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