Glaucoma in screening of diabetic retinopathy programme
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The Scottish Diabetic Retinopathy Screening programme
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---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract The robust detection of red lesions in digital color fundus images is a critical step in the development of automated screening systems for diabetic retinopathy. Diabetic retinopathy is damage to the retina of human eye which is caused by the compl...
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عنوان ژورنال: Acta Ophthalmologica
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1755-375X
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-3768.2017.0s057