Is digital image compression acceptable within diabetic retinopathy screening?

Diabetic Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 766-771

  Basu, A ^a   Kamal, A D ^b   Illahi, W ^b   Khan, M ^b   Stavrou, P ^b   Ryder, R E J ^a  

^a CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Ophthalmology   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Digital imaging; Image compression; JPEG; Retinal screening

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; EYE FUNDUS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHOTOGRAPHY; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; SCREENING; TELEVISION CAMERA; ADULT; AGED; EVALUATION; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TELEMEDICINE; UNITED KINGDOM; VISION TEST;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOGRAPHY; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TELEMEDICINE; VISION SCREENING;

EID: 0642305414     PISSN: 07423071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1464-5491.2003.01022.x     Document Type: Article

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