Online continuous quality improvement for diabetic retinopathy tele-screening

Telemedicine and e-Health

Volumn 10, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2004, Pages

  Stumpf, Steven H ^a,c   Verma, Dinesh ^a   Zalunardo, Rod ^a   Aly, Tracy ^b   Chen, Robert ^a   Labree, Laurie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c Advanced TeleDiagnosis   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PHOTOINTERPRETATION;

IMAGE PER EYE; PROTOCOL; TELE-SCREENING;

TELECOMMUNICATION;

ARTICLE; CAMERA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; ONLINE SYSTEM; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SCORING SYSTEM; SKILL; TELECOMMUNICATION;

EID: 9644302970     PISSN: 15305627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/tmj.2004.10.s-35     Document Type: Article

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