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Automatic Analysis of Color Fundus Photographs and Its Application to the Diagnosis of Diabetic Retinopathy

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Handbook of Biomedical Image Analysis

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Medical image processing is the meeting of two sciences that behave in completely different ways. While medicine is a science where experience plays a majors role and where the practical use is evident, image processing—as a derivative of applied mathematics—is a more theoretical discipline. Hence, the conditions of this meeting need to be analyzed sophisticatedly; not everything possible to implement is useful, and not everything useful is possible to implement.

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Walter, T., Klein, JC. (2005). Automatic Analysis of Color Fundus Photographs and Its Application to the Diagnosis of Diabetic Retinopathy. In: Suri, J.S., Wilson, D.L., Laxminarayan, S. (eds) Handbook of Biomedical Image Analysis. Topics in Biomedical Engineering International Book Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48606-7_7

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