Reproductibility and validity of a new automated method for specular microscopic analysis of the corneal endothelium;Reproduzierbarkeit und Validitat eines neuen automatisierten Verfahrens der spiegelmikroskopischen Hornhautendothelanalyse

Ophthalmologe

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 127-135

  Seitz, Berthold ^a   Müller, Elke E ^a   Langenbucher, Achim ^a   Kus, Murat M ^a   Naumann, Gottfried O H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

automated video image analysis; corneal endothelium; reliability; specular microscopy; validity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CORNEA ENDOTHELIUM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROSCOPY; OPHTHALMOSCOPE; PATHOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REFERENCE VALUE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIDEORECORDING;

ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY; OPHTHALMOSCOPES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 0030611330     PISSN: 0941293X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003470050093     Document Type: Article

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