Incremental nature of anterior eye grading scales determined by objective image analysis

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 88, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1434-1438

  Wolffsohn, J S ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUNZIATO AND EFRON GRADING SCALE; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER; ARTICLE; BULBAR HYPEREMIA; CCLRU GRADING SCALE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONJUNCTIVAL HYPEREMIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PALPEBRAL HYPEREMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; VISTAKON SYNOPTIK GRADING SCALE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; COLOR; CONJUNCTIVA; CORNEA; EYE DISEASES; HUMANS; HYPEREMIA; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE;

EID: 7044262733     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.2004.045534     Document Type: Article

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