Automated detection and differentiation of drusen, exudates, and cotton-wool spots in digital color fundus photographs for diabetic retinopathy diagnosis

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 2260-2267

  Niemeijer, Meindert ^a,b,c   Van Ginneken, Bram ^a,b,c   Russell, Stephen R ^b,d   Suttorp Schulten, Maria S A ^e   Abràmoff, Michael D ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^c IA United States   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e ONZE LIEVE VROUWE GASTHUIS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIGITAL COLOR FUNDUS PHOTOGRAPHY; DRUSEN; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETINA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EXUDATE; EYE FUNDUS; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINA DISEASE; ROC CURVE;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHOTOGRAPHY; RETINAL DISEASES; RETINAL DRUSEN; RETINAL VESSELS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34250191083     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.06-0996     Document Type: Article

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