Risa Higashita focuses on auxiliary pathological diagnosis techniques for the anterior segment of the eye, including basic machine learning and deep learning ophthalmic multimodal image processing, as well as anterior segment examination equipment. She engaged in research related to medical imaging and accumulated rich knowledge and experience in various fields such as industry, academia, and research. Extensive practice has been carried out in the development of imaging hardware equipment and analysis software, medical image processing, artificial intelligence technology, clinical application research and verification.