An automated grading system for detection of vision-threatening referable diabetic retinopathy on the basis of color fundus photographs

Diabetes Care

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2018, Pages 2509-2516

  Li, Zhixi ^a   Keel, Stuart ^b   Liu, Chi ^c   He, Yifan ^c   Meng, Wei ^c   Scheetz, Jane ^b   Lee, Pei Ying ^b   Shaw, Jonathan ^d   Ting, Daniel ^e   Wong, Tien Yin ^e   Taylor, Hugh ^f   Chang, Robert ^g   He, Mingguang ^a,b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c Guangzhou Healgoo Interactive Medical Technology Co Ltd   (China)

^d BAKER IDI HEART AND DIABETES INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^g STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUSTRALIAN; CAUCASIAN; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLOR FUNDUS PHOTOGRAPH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK; DEEP LEARNING ALGORITHM; DIABETIC MACULAR EDEMA; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXTERNAL VALIDATION; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIAN; INTERNAL HOLD OUT VALIDATION; LEARNING ALGORITHM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAY (PEOPLE); MALE; OPHTHALMOLOGIST; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RETINA IMAGE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STEREOSCOPIC VISION; VALIDATION PROCESS; VALIDATION STUDY; VISION; VISION THREATENING DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; ALGORITHM; AUSTRALIA; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DEVICES; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; VERY ELDERLY; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUSTRALIA; AUTOMATION; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 85055705876     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 19355548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc18-0147     Document Type: Article

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