Quantitative Assessment of Early Diabetic Retinopathy Using Fractal Analysis

Diabetes Care

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 106-110

  Cheung, Ning ^a   Donaghue, Kim C ^b   Liew, Gerald ^b   Rogers, Sophie L ^a   Wang, Jie Jin ^a,b   Lim, Shueh Wen ^a   Jenkins, Alicia J ^a   Hsu, Wynne ^c   Lee, Mong Li ^c   Wong, Tien Y ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN A1C;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHOTOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; STEREORADIOGRAPHY; VASCULARIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; AGE OF ONSET; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; FEMALE; FRACTALS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; RETINAL ARTERY; RETINAL VEIN; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 64549123117     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 19355548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc08-1233     Document Type: Article

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