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Donald T. Miller

Engineering · Indiana University

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Established · publishing since 1975
Optical Coherence Tomography ApplicationsRetinal Imaging and AnalysisRetinal Development and DisordersRetinal Diseases and TreatmentsRetinal and Macular Surgery

Publications

196

Citations

7,772

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

51

Publishing since 1975

Research summary
AI-generated

Donald T. Miller develops advanced optical imaging systems for looking inside the living human eye at very high resolution. His work centers on adaptive optics combined with optical coherence tomography (AO-OCT), techniques that correct optical distortions to image individual retinal cells such as photoreceptors and ganglion cells. He applies these tools, often paired with machine learning, to study how these cells change in eye diseases like glaucoma and retinitis pigmentosa.

Adaptive optics retinal imagingOptical coherence tomography (OCT)Photoreceptor and retinal cell analysisMachine learning for image analysisRetinal disease characterization

Publication activity was steady to high through 2021 and has been somewhat lower in recent years, averaging about 2.8 papers per year over the last five years.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 9, 2026

Funding
Public award records

Current awards run through April 2027 — about under a year of funding on record from today. Awards are often renewed, so this is what is currently public, not a forecast.

  • ActiveNIH R01EY018339through Apr 2027 · $549k awarded

    Imaging Structure and Function of Photoreceptors

2 earlier awards
  • NIH R01EY029808Apr 2019 – Mar 2024 · $392k awarded

    Imaging spatial and temporal dynamics of retinal ganglion cells

  • NIH T35EY013937Sep 2001 – Apr 2022 · $19k awarded

    Short-Term Research Training For Optometry Students

Matched to public NIH RePORTER and NSF records by name and institution. Awards from other agencies are not shown, and a match is not always found — this list may be incomplete.

In context
Among 1,566 established Engineering PIs within our index
Citations: 7,772cohort median 1,768
h-index: 38cohort median 21
Publications / year (recent): 2.8cohort median 4.2

Typically publishes in teams of ~5 · 7% small-team papers (≤3 authors) · across 13 venues

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 2.8/year recently
2017: 11 publications172018: 5 publications182019: 8 publications192020: 10 publications202021: 13 publications1321222023: 5 publications232024: 6 publications242025: 3 publications2526
Collaborators per year
Distinct co-authors at Indiana University each year — a rough indication of whether the group around this researcher has been growing or contracting. An estimate from co-authorship, not a roster: collaborators are not necessarily lab members, and recent years can be under-counted while indexing catches up.
2017: 0 collaborators at the same institution2018: 0 collaborators at the same institution2019: 0 collaborators at the same institution2020: 1 collaborator at the same institution2021: 1 collaborator at the same institution2022: 0 collaborators at the same institution2023: 2 collaborators at the same institution2024: 0 collaborators at the same institution2025: 1 collaborator at the same institution1719212325
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science×11
  • Biomedical Optics Express×9
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences×3
  • Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE×3
  • Journal of Biomedical Optics×2
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Last updated Sep 1, 2026.

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