Automated measurement of the arteriolar-to-venular width ratio in digital color fundus photographs

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1941-1950

  Niemeijer, Meindert ^a,b   Xu, Xiayu ^c   Dumitrescu, Alina V ^a   Gupta, Priya ^a   Van Ginneken, Bram ^d   Folk, James C ^a   Abramoff, Michael D ^a,c,e  

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

^b VA Center of Excellence for Prevention and Treatment of Visual Loss   (United States)

^c University of Iowa   (United States)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Artery; artery vein ratio; artery vein separation; retina; vasculature; vein

Indexed keywords

ARTERY; ARTERY VEIN RATIO; ARTERY VEIN SEPARATION; RETINA; VASCULATURE; VEIN;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; BLOOD VESSELS; COLOR; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY;

PIXELS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; EYE FUNDUS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION RETINOPATHY; METHODOLOGY; OPTIC DISK; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHY; RETINA; RETINA ARTERY; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINA VEIN; STANDARD; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

ADULT; COLOR; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; HYPERTENSIVE RETINOPATHY; OPTIC DISK; PHOTOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REFERENCE STANDARDS; RETINA; RETINAL ARTERY; RETINAL VEIN; RETINAL VESSELS; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 80455145311     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2011.2159619     Document Type: Article

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