A web-based system for the quantitative and reproducible assessment of clinical indexes from the retinal vasculature

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 3 PART 2, 2011, Pages 818-821

  Tramontan, Lara ^a   Poletti, Enea ^a   Fiorin, Diego ^a   Ruggeri, Alfredo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arteriolar narrowing; retina; retinopathy

Indexed keywords

ARTERIOLAR NARROWING; CLIENT SERVER; CLINICAL INDICES; CORRECT ERROR; FUNDUS IMAGE; HIGH REPRODUCIBILITY; INTERACTIVE EDITING; P-VALUES; PEARSON'S CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATION; RETINA; RETINAL VASCULATURE; RETINOPATHY; VASCULAR TREES; WEB-BASED SYSTEM;

CORRELATION METHODS; EYE PROTECTION;

OPHTHALMOLOGY;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLIENT SERVER APPLICATION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EYE FUNDUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; NORMAL HUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA BLOOD FLOW; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; WEB BROWSER;

ALGORITHMS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERNET; RETINAL VESSELS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 79952024239     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2010.2085001     Document Type: Article

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