Mark van Grinsven studied Biomedical Engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology. His master thesis was entitled “Automated tracking and segmentation of vascular trees” and the research was carried out with Philips Healthcare. In July 2011 he started to work at the Diagnostic Image Analysis Group as a PhD student on Computer Aided Diagnosis of Retinal Images, under the supervision of Clarisa Sánchez. Results of the work he carried out in the group were reported in his thesis, entitled “Automated analysis of retinal images for detection of age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy”, defended on 29th September 2016.