The microcirculation image quality score: Development and preliminary evaluation of a proposed approach to grading quality of image acquisition for bedside videomicroscopy

Journal of Critical Care

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 913-917

  Massey, Michael J ^a   LaRochelle, Ethan ^a   Najarro, Gabriel ^a   Karmacharla, Adarsh ^a   Arnold, Ryan ^b   Trzeciak, Stephen ^b   Angus, Derek C ^c   Shapiro, Nathan I ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Camden   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Image acquisition; Microcirculation video

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MICROCIRCULATION IMAGE QUALITY SCORE; MICROSCOPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; VIDEOMICROSCOPY;

IMAGE ACQUISITION; MICROCIRCULATION VIDEO;

ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; MOUTH FLOOR; OBSERVER VARIATION; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84887407778     PISSN: 08839441     EISSN: 15578615     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrc.2013.06.015     Document Type: Article

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