Ryan P. McNabb
Papers
13
Total Citations
127
H-Index
6
About
Ryan P. McNabb is a pioneering biomedical engineer whose research sits at the intersection of optical coherence tomography (OCT), robotics, and ophthalmic imaging. His work has fundamentally advanced how retinal imaging is performed, moving the technology beyond the constraints of traditional clinical settings and specialist-dependent operation. McNabb's most celebrated contribution — a contactless robotic OCT system capable of imaging freestanding individuals (2021, 53 citations) — demonstrated that high-quality retinal scans could be acquired without chin rests, head stabilization, or patient compliance, dramatically expanding accessibility. Building on this, he has developed systems with six-degrees-of-freedom alignment, gaze tracking for image montaging, and full autonomy for patients with limited cooperation. Notably, McNabb has extended robotic OCT into emergency medicine, showing that emergency physicians can meaningfully interpret retinal pathology using his platforms — and later pairing these systems with deep learning models like RobOCTNet for automated pathology detection. His growing body of work, now totaling over 120 citations, signals a transformative vision: making ophthalmic OCT as accessible and autonomous as modern diagnostic imaging, deployable wherever patients are found.
Research Focus
Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5New Directions for Ophthalmic OCT – Handhelds, Surgery, and Robotics9 citations · 2025
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10