Automated analysis of digital fundus autofluorescence images of geographic atrophy in advanced age-related macular degeneration using confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (cSLO)

BMC Ophthalmology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Deckert, A ^a   Schmitz Valckenberg, S ^b   Jorzik, J ^c   Bindewald, A ^b   Holz, F G ^b   Mansmann, U ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; AUTOANALYSIS; AUTOFLUORESCENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FUNDUS; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; OCULAR BLOOD VESSEL; PILOT STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC USE; FLUORESCENCE; LASER; MACULAR DEGENERATION; OBSERVER VARIATION; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PATHOLOGY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; VASCULARIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; ATROPHY; FLUORESCENCE; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LASERS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; OBSERVER VARIATION; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; PILOT PROJECTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 21844457120     PISSN: 14712415     EISSN: 14712415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2415-5-8     Document Type: Article

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