introduction: diabetic retinopathy (dr) is the single largest cause of sight loss and blindness in the working age population of western countries; it is the most common cause of blindness in adults between 20 and 60 years of age. early diagnosis of dr is critical for preventing vision loss so early detection of microaneurysms (mas) as the first signs of dr is important. this paper addresses th...

Fluorescein angiography is a clinical diagnostic test procedure in which rapid-sequence photography is performed after intravenous injection of sodium fluorescein. The procedure allows the documentation of the retinal circulation. Of equal importance is the ability of the angiogram to outline the entire retinal vascular bed. Previous clinical methods of examination of the fundus enabled the phy...

In this issue of the Journal of Pediatric Ophthalmology & Strabismus, Ng, Lanigan, and O’Keefe present their findings regarding fundus fluorescein angiography in the management and screening of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). Recently, there has been interest in photographic documentation of ROP in hospitals lacking sufficient ophthalmologic staff. Images created in the intensive care nursery...

this paper presents a new procedure for automatic extraction of the blood vessels and optic disk (od) in fundus fluorescein angiogram (ffa). in order to extract blood vessel centerlines, the algorithm of vessel extraction starts with the analysis of directional images resulting from sub‑bands of fast discrete curvelet transform (fdct) in the similar directions and different scales. for this pur...

AIMS To observe the vascular pattern of the peripapillary circle of Zinn-Haller in humans by fundus fluorescein angiography. METHODS 307 cases (from 212 patients) of fundus fluorescein angiograms performed in patients with myopic degeneration were evaluated to find the circle of Zinn-Haller and to observe its fundus fluorescein angiographic features. RESULTS 15 cases (from 13 patients) with...