Welikala R A, Fraz M M, Hayat S, Rudnicka A R, Foster P J, Whincup P H, Owen C G, Strachan D P, Barman S A
Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2015;2015:5239-42. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2015.7319573.
The characteristics of the retinal vascular network have been prospectively associated with many systemic and vascular diseases. QUARTZ is a fully automated software that has been developed to localize and quantify the morphological characteristics of blood vessels in retinal images for use in epidemiological studies. This software was used to analyse a dataset containing 16,000 retinal images from the EPIC-Norfolk cohort study. The objective of this paper is to both assess the suitability of this dataset for computational analysis and to further evaluate the QUARTZ software.
视网膜血管网络的特征已被前瞻性地关联到许多全身性和血管性疾病。QUARTZ是一款完全自动化的软件，开发该软件的目的是在视网膜图像中定位和量化血管的形态特征，以用于流行病学研究。该软件被用于分析一个包含来自EPIC-诺福克队列研究的16000张视网膜图像的数据集。本文的目的是评估该数据集对计算分析的适用性，并进一步评估QUARTZ软件。
