Wide-field digital imaging based telemedicine for screening for acute retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). Six-year results of a multicentre field study

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 247, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1251-1262

  Lorenz, Birgit ^a,b   Spasovska, Katerina ^b   Elflein, Heike ^b,c   Schneider, Nico ^a,b  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY GIESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Positive predictive value; RetCam 120; Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP); Sensitivity; Telemedicine; Wide field digital imaging (WFDI)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLINDNESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL IMAGING; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GERMANY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN SCREENING; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROLENTAL FIBROPLASIA; RISK REDUCTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TELEMEDICINE;

ACUTE DISEASE; BLINDNESS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALE; PHOTOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINOPATHY OF PREMATURITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 68549133280     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-009-1077-7     Document Type: Article

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