Automated retinal image analysis over the internet

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 480-487

  Tsai, Chia Ling ^a,b   Madore, Benjamim ^a,c   Leotta, Matthew J ^a,d   Sofka, Michal ^e   Yang, Gehua ^a,f   Majerovics, Anna ^g   Tanenbaum, Howard L ^g   Stewart, Charles V ^e   Roysam, Badrinath ^a,h,i  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c ACCENTURE   (United States)

^d Brown University   (United States)

^e Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^f DualAlign LLC   (United States)

^g Center for Sight   (United States)

^h Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems (CenSSIS)   (United States)

ⁱ Rensselaer Center for Open Source Software   (United States)

Author keywords

Alignment; Internet based; Registration; Retinal image analysis; Vasculature tracing

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERNET; PHOTOGRAPHY; VISUALIZATION;

CLINICAL DIAGNOSES; CLINICAL TRIALS; DIGITAL IMAGING; FULL RESOLUTIONS; FUNDUS PHOTOGRAPHS; INTERNET BASED; INTERNET-BASED SYSTEMS; LONGITUDINAL IMAGES; MORPHOMETRY; REGISTRATION; REGISTRATION SYSTEMS; RESEARCH WORKS; RETINAL IMAGE ANALYSIS; RETINAL IMAGE VESSELS; RETINAL VASCULATURE; VASCULATURE TRACING;

OPHTHALMOLOGY;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINOSCOPY; TELECONSULTATION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERNET; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REMOTE CONSULTATION; RETINAL VESSELS; RETINOSCOPY;

EID: 48349134358     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2007.908790     Document Type: Article

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