Decision support system for the detection and grading of hard exudates from color fundus photographs

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Jaafar, Hussain F ^a   Nandi, Asoke K ^a   Al Nuaimy, Waleed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

coarse to fine strategy; diabetic retinopathy; exudate detection; image segmentation; medical imaging; retinal fundus image

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED DETECTION; AUTOMATED SCREENING; AVERAGE SENSITIVITIES; BLOOD VESSEL DETECTION; CO-ORDINATE SYSTEM; COARSE-TO-FINE STRATEGY; COLOR FUNDUS PHOTOGRAPH; CRITICAL STEPS; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; EXUDATE DETECTION; FUNDUS IMAGE; HARD EXUDATES; NOVEL METHODS; PIXEL LEVEL; POSITIVE PREDICTIVE VALUES; RETINAL STRUCTURE; COMPETITIVE PERFORMANCE; EXUDATE DETECTIONS; RETINAL FUNDUS IMAGES;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATION; BLOOD; BLOOD VESSELS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; EYE PROTECTION; GRADING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS;

DAMAGE DETECTION; GRADING;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; EXUDATE; EYE FUNDUS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETINAL VESSELS; ROC CURVE;

EID: 80655142506     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3643719     Document Type: Article

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