Comparative analysis of repeatability of manual and automated choroidal thickness measurements in nonneovascular age-related macular degeneration

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 2864-2871

  Lee, Sieun ^a   Fallah, Nader ^b   Forooghian, Farzin ^c   Ko, Ashley ^c   Pakzad Vaezi, Kaivon ^c   Merkur, Andrew B ^c   Kirker, Andrew W ^c   Albiani, David A ^c   Young, Mei ^c   Sarunic, Marinko V ^a   Beg, Mirza Faisal ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b RICK HANSEN INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Age related macular degeneration; Choroidal thickness; Optical coherence tomography; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOMICROSCOPY; CHOROID; CHOROIDAL THICKNESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUSEN; ENHANCED DEPTH IMAGING OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGING; MALE; MEASUREMENT REPEATABILITY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CHOROID; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; FEMALE; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; OPTIC DISK DRUSEN; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84876532538     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.12-11521     Document Type: Article

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