Morphometry of cells and guttae in subjects with normal or guttate endothelium with a contour detection algorithm

Eye and Contact Lens

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 158-165

  Giasson, Claude J ^a,b,c   Graham, Andrew ^d   Blouin, Jean François ^f   Solomon, Leon ^e   Gresset, Jacques ^a   Melillo, Marc ^a   Polse, Kenneth A ^f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f Université de Montréal ^*

Author keywords

Cell border; Cell morphology; Cell morphometry; Corneal endothelium

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CELL AGING; CELL STRUCTURE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; DYSTROPHY; ENDOTHELIUM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; OBSERVER BIAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT T TEST; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CELL SHAPE; CELL SIZE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA ENDOTHELIUM; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELL SHAPE; CELL SIZE; CORNEAL DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 27244440150     PISSN: 15422321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ICL.0000165286.05080.23     Document Type: Article

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