A computer assisted method for nuclear cataract grading from slit-lamp images using ranking

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 94-107

  Huang, Wei ^a   Chan, Kap Luk ^a   Li, Huiqi ^b   Lim, Joo Hwee ^b   Liu, Jiang ^b   Wong, Tien Yin ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Computer aided diagnosis (CAD); grade; nuclear cataract; ranking; slit lamp images

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL DECISION; CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL POPULATION; COMPUTER-ASSISTED METHODS; DATA SETS; DIRECT OPTIMIZATION; EVALUATION MEASURES; EXISTING METHOD; GRADE; LABELED IMAGES; NUCLEAR CATARACT; RANKING; RANKING FUNCTIONS; SLIT-LAMP IMAGES;

DECISION MAKING; GRADING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

ARTICLE; CATARACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LENS NUCLEUS; METHODOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

CATARACT; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; HUMANS; LENS NUCLEUS, CRYSTALLINE; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RESEARCH DESIGN; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 78650873881     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2010.2062197     Document Type: Article

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