Otitis Media Diagnosis for Developing Countries Using Tympanic Membrane Image-Analysis

EBioMedicine

Volumn 5, Issue , 2016, Pages 156-160

  Myburgh, Hermanus C ^a   van Zijl, Willemien H ^a   Swanepoel, DeWet ^a,b,f   Hellström, Sten ^c,d   Laurent, Claude ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^e UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f EAR SCIENCE INSTITUTE AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Automated diagnosis; Decision tree; Feature extraction; Global medicine; Otitis media; Video otoscope

Indexed keywords

ACUTE SUPPURATIVE OTITIS MEDIA; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHRONIC SUPPURATIVE OTITIS MEDIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OTITIS MEDIA; OTOSCOPE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECRETORY OTITIS MEDIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION PROCESS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DEVICES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EARDRUM; IMAGE PROCESSING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; OTITIS MEDIA; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE;

EID: 84957927318     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23523964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2016.02.017     Document Type: Article

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