Effect of image quality, color, and format on the measurement of retinal vascular fractal dimension

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 5525-5529

  Wainwright, Alan ^a   Liew, Gerald ^a   Burlutsky, George ^a   Rochtchina, Elena ^a   Zhang, Yong Ping ^b   Hsu, Wynne ^c   Lee, Janice Mongli ^d   Wong, Tien Yin ^d,e   Mitchell, Paul ^a   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)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE BRIGHTNESS; IMAGE COLOR; IMAGE CONTRAST; IMAGE FOCUS; IMAGE FORMAT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINA IMAGE; RETINAL VASCULAR FRACTAL DIMENSION; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

COLOR; FRACTALS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHOTOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINAL VESSELS;

EID: 79956014995     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-4129     Document Type: Article

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