Intra and interobserver agreement in the classification of fundus autofluorescence patterns in geographic atrophy secondary to age-related macular degeneration

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 250, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 485-490

  Biarnés, Marc ^a,b   Monés, Jordi ^a   Trindade, Fabio ^a   Alonso, Jordi ^b   Arias, Luis ^c  

^a Institut de la Macula y la Retina   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Age related macular degeneration; Geographic atrophy. Fundus autofluorescence; Kappa; Reproducibility

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE IMAGING; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FUNDUS AUTOFLUORESCENCE; GEOGRAPHIC ATROPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTEROBSERVER AGREEMENT; INTRAOBSERVER AGREEMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DISEASE COURSE; EYE FUNDUS; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FUNDUS OCULI; GEOGRAPHIC ATROPHY; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84861310737     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: 1435702X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-011-1846-y     Document Type: Article

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