Before joining the Department permanently, Dr. Sandeep Bollepalli was a visiting scholar working on the digital twin of the eye, predictive models for age-related macular degeneration, and ophthalmic image registration, segmentation, and classification.
- Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Research Fellow
- Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, PhD
- Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Masters
Education & Training
Detection of Disease Features on Retinal OCT Scans Using RETFound. Du K, Nair AR, Shah S, Gadari A, Vupparaboina SC, Bollepalli SC, Sutharahan S, Sahel JA, Jana S, Chhablani J, Vupparaboina KK. Bioengineering (Basel). 2024 Nov 25;11(12):1186. doi: 10.3390/bioengineering11121186.
Assessment of choroidal vessels in healthy eyes using 3-dimensional vascular maps and a semi-automated deep learning approach. Valsecchi N, Sadeghi E, Davis E, Ibrahim MN, Hasan N, Bollepalli SC, Singh SR, Fontana L, Sahel JA, Vupparaboina KK, Chhablani J. Sci Rep. 2025 Jan 3;15(1):714. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-85189-7.
Inter-rater reliability in labeling quality and pathological features of retinal OCT scans: A customized annotation software approach. Du K, Shah S, Bollepalli SC, Ibrahim MN, Gadari A, Sutharahan S, Sahel JA, Chhablani J, Vupparaboina KK. PLoS One. 2024 Dec 18;19(12):e0314707. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0314707. eCollection 2024.
Three-Dimensional Choroidal Vessels Assessment in Age-Related Macular Degeneration. Sadeghi E, Valsecchi N, Ibrahim MN, Du K, Davis E, Bollepalli SC, Vupparaboina KK, Sahel JA, Chhablani J. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2024 Nov 4;65(13):39. doi: 10.1167/iovs.65.13.39.
Artificial Intelligence Algorithms in Cardiovascular Medicine: An Attainable Promise to Improve Patient Outcomes or an Inaccessible Investment? Bota P, Thambiraj G, Bollepalli SC, Armoundas AA. Curr Cardiol Rep. 2024 Dec;26(12):1477-1485. doi: 10.1007/s11886-024-02146-y. Epub 2024 Oct 29.
Dr. Bollepalli’s research interests include machine learning, multimodal data fusion, biomedical signal processing, big data analytics, and natural language processing.