Automated quantification of inherited phenotypes from color images: A twin study of the variability of optic nerve head shape

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 5870-5877

  Tang, Li ^a   Scheetz, Todd E ^a,b   Mackey, David A ^b,c   Hewitt, Alex W ^b   Fingert, John H ^a   Kwon, Young H ^a   Quellec, Gwenole ^a   Reinhardt, Joseph M ^d   Abràmoff, Michael D ^a,b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d University of Iowa   (United States)

^e VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; INHERITANCE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; OPTIC NERVE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOSCOPIC VISION; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TWINS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; OPTIC DISK; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79956044891     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-5527     Document Type: Article

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