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Computer-Aided Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy Progression

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It is considered crucial for diabetic retinopathy (DR) management to identify disease progression in clinical practice. Automated computer-aided analysis of fundus digital photographs giving microaneurysm formation and disappearance rates together with OCT measurements of extracellular space and retinal thickness, both based on non-invasive procedures allow close follow-up of the main alterations occurring in the diabetic retina: microaneurysm turnover, capillary closure and alteration of blood-retinal barrier. Determination of the activity of the retinal disease and individual risk profiles using non-invasive procedures is expected to contribute to personalized management of diabetic retinopathy and prevent its vision-threatening complications, macular oedema and proliferative retinopathy. Finally, automated computer-aided analysis of fundus digital photographs, namely, the Retmarker, offers a promising contribution to reduce the burden of manual grading in DR screening programmes.

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  1. AIBILI – Association for Innovation and Biomedical Research on Light and Image, Coimbra, Portugal

    José Cunha-Vaz & Rui Bernardes

  2. Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, Centre of New Technologies for Medicine, Coimbra, Portugal

    José Cunha-Vaz & Rui Bernardes

  3. AIBILI – Association for Innovation and Biomedical Research on Light and Image, Centre of New Technologies for Medicine, Coimbra, Portugal

    Torcato Santos, Conceição Lobo & Luisa Ribeiro

  4. Critical Health, Centre for Clinical Trails, Coimbra, Portugal

    Carlos Oliveira

  5. Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Conceição Lobo

  6. Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Conceição Lobo & Isabel Pires

  7. AIBILI – Association for Innovation and Biomedical Research on Light and Image Centre for Clinical Trails, Coimbra, Portugal

    Isabel Pires

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Cunha-Vaz, J. et al. (2012). Computer-Aided Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy Progression. In: Yogesan, K., Goldschmidt, L., Cuadros, J. (eds) Digital Teleretinal Screening. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25810-7_6

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