Characterization of changes in blood vessel width and tortuosity in retinopathy of prematurity using image analysis

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 407-429

  Heneghan, Conor ^a   Flynn, John ^a,b   O'Keefe, Michael ^c   Cahill, Mark ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^d JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Morphological processing; Retinopathy of prematurity; Screening; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BLOOD VESSEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE COURSE; FETUS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RETINA IMAGE; RETROLENTAL FIBROPLASIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VASODILATATION;

EID: 0036890682     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1361-8415(02)00058-0     Document Type: Article

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