Automated Diabetic Retinopathy Image Assessment Software: Diagnostic Accuracy and Cost-Effectiveness Compared with Human Graders

Ophthalmology

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 343-351

  Tufail, Adnan ^a   Rudisill, Caroline ^b   Egan, Catherine ^a   Kapetanakis, Venediktos V ^c   Salas Vega, Sebastian ^b   Owen, Christopher G ^c   Lee, Aaron ^a,d   Louw, Vern ^a   Anderson, John ^e   Liew, Gerald ^a   Bolter, Louis ^e   Srinivas, Sowmya ^f   Nittala, Muneeswar ^f   Sadda, SriniVas ^f   Taylor, Paul ^g   Rudnicka, Alicja R ^c  

^a MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^c ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e HOMERTON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^f DOHENY EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED DIABETIC RETINOPATHY IMAGE ASSESSMENT SYSTEMS; AUTOMATION; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SOFTWARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METABOLIC PARAMETERS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLIFERATIVE RETINOPATHY; RETINA IMAGE; RETINA MACULOPATHY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION TREE; ECONOMICS; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HEALTH ECONOMICS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOFTWARE; VERY ELDERLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION TREES; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; ECONOMICS, MEDICAL; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 85009255599     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: 15494713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2016.11.014     Document Type: Article

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