Digital versus film fundus photography for research grading of diabetic retinopathy severity

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 5846-5852

  Li, Helen K ^a,b   Hubbard, Larry D ^c   Danis, Ronald P ^c   Esquivel, Adol ^d   Florez Arango, Jose F ^a,e   Ferrier, Nicola J ^c   Krupinski, Elizabeth A ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d MICHAEL E DEBAKEY VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA   (Colombia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY TREATMENT DIABETIC RETINOPATHY STUDY; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FILM FUNDUS PHOTOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRARETINAL MICROVASCULAR ABNORMALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROANGIOPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VEIN DISEASE; VENOUS BLEEDING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHOTOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 78650176876     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-4803     Document Type: Article

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