Robert F. Cooper, PhD

Assistant Professor, Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering; Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

Locations

Marquette University
Biomedical Engineering

Contact Information

Education

BS, Biomedical Engineering, Marquette University, 2009
PhD, Biomedical Engineering, Marquette University, 2016

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Biography

Dr. Robert Cooper received his PhD in biomedical engineering from Marquette University in 2016. He then completed a 4-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania before returning to Marquette University and the Medical College of Wisconsin as an assistant professor of biomedical engineering.

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Honors and Awards

2011: National Eye Institute Travel Grant, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Annual Meeting
2014: Research Assistant Honors, Marquette University
2016: Young Investigator Award, Optical Society of America Fall Vision Meeting

Research Areas of Interest

Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
Photoreceptor Cells, Vertebrate
Retinal Diseases

Comparison of Cone Mosaic Metrics From Images Acquired With the SPECTRALIS High Magnification Module and Adaptive Optics Scanning Light Ophthalmoscopy.

(Wynne N, Heitkotter H, Woertz EN, Cooper RF, Carroll J.) Transl Vis Sci Technol. 2022 05 02;11(5):19 PMID: 35583887 PMCID: PMC9123519 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85130766763 05/19/2022
ENHANCED S-CONE SYNDROME: VISUAL FUNCTION, CROSS-SECTIONAL IMAGING, AND CELLULAR STRUCTURE WITH ADAPTIVE OPTICS OPHTHALMOSCOPY.

(Ammar MJ, Scavelli KT, Uyhazi KE, Bedoukian EC, Serrano LW, Edelstein ID, Vergilio G, Cooper RF, Morgan JIW, Kumar P, Aleman TS.) Retin Cases Brief Rep. 2021 Nov 01;15(6):694-701 PMID: 31306293 PMCID: PMC6980308 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85121014909 07/16/2019
Cone photoreceptor reflectance variation in the northern tree shrew and thirteen-lined ground squirrel.

(Gaffney M, Cooper RF, Cava JA, Follett HM, Salmon AE, Freling S, Yu CT, Merriman DK, Carroll J.) Exp Biol Med (Maywood). 2021 10;246(20):2192-2201 PMID: 34308656 PMCID: PMC8718250 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85111543715 07/27/2021
Automated image processing pipeline for adaptive optics scanning light ophthalmoscopy.

(Salmon AE, Cooper RF, Chen M, Higgins B, Cava JA, Chen N, Follett HM, Gaffney M, Heitkotter H, Heffernan E, Schmidt TG, Carroll J.) Biomed Opt Express. 2021 Jun 01;12(6):3142-3168 PMID: 34221651 PMCID: PMC8221964 07/06/2021
Optoretinography of individual human cone photoreceptors.

(Cooper RF, Brainard DH, Morgan JIW.) Opt Express. 2020 Dec 21;28(26):39326-39339 PMID: 33379485 PMCID: PMC7771891 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85097594015 01/01/2021
Assessing Interocular Symmetry of the Foveal Cone Mosaic.

(Cava JA, Allphin MT, Mastey RR, Gaffney M, Linderman RE, Cooper RF, Carroll J.) Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2020 12 01;61(14):23 PMID: 33331861 PMCID: PMC7746960 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85098742066 12/18/2020
Cone Identification in Choroideremia: Repeatability, Reliability, and Automation Through Use of a Convolutional Neural Network.

(Morgan JIW, Chen M, Huang AM, Jiang YY, Cooper RF.) Transl Vis Sci Technol. 2020 07;9(2):40 PMID: 32855844 PMCID: PMC7424931 08/29/2020
Automatic longitudinal montaging of adaptive optics retinal images using constellation matching.

(Chen M, Cooper RF, Gee JC, Brainard DH, Morgan JIW.) Biomed Opt Express. 2019 Dec 01;10(12):6476-6496 PMID: 31853412 PMCID: PMC6913413 12/20/2019
Fully Automated Estimation of Spacing and Density for Retinal Mosaics.

(Cooper RF, Aguirre GK, Morgan JIW.) Transl Vis Sci Technol. 2019 Sep;8(5):26 PMID: 31637106 PMCID: PMC6798313 10/23/2019
A 2-Year Longitudinal Study of Normal Cone Photoreceptor Density.

(Jackson K, Vergilio GK, Cooper RF, Ying GS, Morgan JIW.) Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2019 04 01;60(5):1420-1430 PMID: 30943290 PMCID: PMC6736277 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85064239192 04/04/2019
Assessing Retinal Structure in Patients with Parkinson's Disease.

(Young JB, Godara P, Williams V, Summerfelt P, Connor TB, Tarima S, Visotcky A, Cooper RF, Blindauer K, Carroll J.) J Neurol Neurophysiol. 2019;10(1) PMID: 31057987 PMCID: PMC6494090 05/07/2019
Spatial summation in the human fovea: Do normal optical aberrations and fixational eye movements have an effect?

(Tuten WS, Cooper RF, Tiruveedhula P, Dubra A, Roorda A, Cottaris NP, Brainard DH, Morgan JIW.) J Vis. 2018 08 01;18(8):6 PMID: 30105385 PMCID: PMC6091889 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85052645209 08/15/2018

Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences