Suitability of UK Biobank retinal images for automatic analysis of morphometric properties of the vasculature

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  MacGillivray, Thomas J ^a,b   Cameron, James R ^a   Zhang, Qiuli ^b   El Medany, Ahmed ^b   Mulholland, Carl ^b   Sheng, Ziyan ^b   Dhillon, Bal ^a   Doubal, Fergus N ^b   Foster, Paul J ^c   Trucco, Emmanuel ^d   Sudlow, Cathie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FUNDUS; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINA IMAGE; FACTUAL DATABASE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RETINAL DISEASES; SOFTWARE;

ADULT; AGED; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETINAL DISEASES; RETINAL VESSELS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84930670608     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0127914     Document Type: Article

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