Exudate-based diabetic macular edema detection in fundus images using publicly available datasets

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 216-226

  Giancardo, Luca ^a   Meriaudeau, Fabrice ^b   Karnowski, Thomas P ^a   Li, Yaqin ^c   Garg, Seema ^d   Tobin, Kenneth W ^a   Chaum, Edward ^c  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic diagnosis; Exudates segmentation; Feature extraction; Lesion probability; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; DATA SETS; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DIAGNOSIS PERFORMANCE; ETHNIC GROUPS; FALSE POSITIVE; FUNDUS IMAGE; GROUND TRUTH; LOCALISATION; MACULAR EDEMA; OPTIC NERVE; WAVELETS;

ALGORITHMS; DIAGNOSIS; EYE PROTECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; STATISTICAL TESTS; WAVELET DECOMPOSITION;

DATA PROCESSING;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; DIABETIC MACULAR EDEMA; ETHNIC GROUP; EYE FUNDUS; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETINA EXUDATE; RETINA IMAGE; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MACULAR EDEMA; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINOSCOPY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 82355185836     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: 13618423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2011.07.004     Document Type: Article

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