Fully automated, semiautomated, and manual morphometric analysis of corneal subbasal nerve plexus in individuals with and without diabetes

Cornea

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 696-702

  Dehghani, Cirous ^a   Pritchard, Nicola ^a   Edwards, Katie ^a   Russell, Anthony W ^b,c   Malik, Rayaz A ^d   Efron, Nathan ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

corneal confocal microscopy; corneal nerve fiber length; diabetic neuropathy; morphometric analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONFOCAL LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; CORNEAL NERVE FIBER LENGTH; CORNEAL SUBBASAL NERVE PLEXUS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; HUMAN; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE PLEXUS; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NERVOUS TISSUE; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CRANIAL NERVE DISEASES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; INNERVATION; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBER; OPHTHALMIC NERVE; PATHOLOGY; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

CORNEA; CRANIAL NERVE DISEASES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; OPHTHALMIC NERVE;

EID: 84902299224     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: 15364798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0000000000000152     Document Type: Article

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