Retinal Telemedicine

Current Ophthalmology Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 36-45

  Chee, Ru ik ^a   Darwish, Dana ^a   Fernández Vega, Álvaro ^a   Patel, Samir N ^b   Jonas, Karyn ^a   Ostmo, Susan ^c   Campbell, J Peter ^c   Chiang, Michael F ^c   Chan, R V Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b WILLS EYE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deep learning; Diabetic retinopathy; Image analysis; Retina; Retinopathy of prematurity; Telemedicine

Indexed keywords

AGE RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; DIABETIC MACULAR EDEMA; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EYE CARE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MACHINE LEARNING; NEWBORN SCREENING; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA DETACHMENT; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; STEREOSCOPIC VISION; TELEMEDICINE; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VITREOUS HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 85050985630     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21674868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40135-018-0161-8     Document Type: Review

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