Retinal vascular fractal dimension measurement and its influence from imaging variation: Results of two segmentation methods

Current Eye Research

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 850-856

  Cosatto, Victoria Fay ^a   Liew, Gerald ^a   Rochtchina, Elena ^a   Wainwright, Alan ^a   Zhang, Yongping ^b   Hsu, Wynne ^c   Lee, Mong Li ^c   Lau, Qiangfeng Peter ^c   Hamzah, Haslina H ^c   Mitchell, Paul ^a   Wong, Tien Yin ^c,d   Wang, Jie Jin ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NINGBO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Blue Mountains Eye Study; Fractal dimension; Methodology; Photographic angle of incidence; Retinal vasculature

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERNATIONAL RETINAL IMAGING SOFTWARE FRACTAL; MALE; MEASUREMENT; OPTIC DISK; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; SINGAPORE INSTITUTE VESSEL ASSESSMENT FRACTAL; STEREOSCOPIC VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FRACTALS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPTIC DISK; PHOTOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINAL VESSELS;

EID: 77956151716     PISSN: 02713683     EISSN: 14602202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02713683.2010.490628     Document Type: Article

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