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titative data that may improve tracking of GA extent, location and expansion in
patients diagnosed with advanced non-exudative AMD.
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patients diagnosed with advanced non-exudative AMD.
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1. H.R. Coleman, C.C. Chan, F.L. Ferris, E.Y. Chew, Age-related macular degeneration. Lancet
372(9652), 1835–1845 (2008)
2. R.D. Jager, W.F. Mieler, J.W. Miller, Age-related macular degeneration. N. Engl. J. Med.
358(24), 2606–2617 (2008)
3. R. Klein, T. Peto, A. Bird, M.R. Vannewkirk, The epidemiology of age-related macular degeneration. Am. J. Ophthalmol. 137(3), 486–495 (2004)
4. D.V. Alfaro, P.E. Liggett, W.F. Mieler, H. Quiroz-Mercado, R.D. Jager, Y. Tano (eds.), Agerelated macular degeneration: a comprehensive textbook (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,
Philadelphia, 2006)
5. A.C. Bird, N.M. Bressler, S.B. Bressler, I.H. Chisholm, G. Coscas, M.D. Davis, P.T. De Jong,
C.C. Klaver, B.E. Klein, R. Klein et al., An international classification and grading system
for age-related maculopathy and age-related macular degeneration: the International ARM
Epidemiological Study Group. Surv. Ophthalmology 39(5), 367–374 (1995)
6. R. Klein, B.E. Klein, K.L. Linton, Prevalence of age-related maculopathy: the Beaver Dam
Eye Study. Ophthalmology 99(6), 933–943 (1992)
7. Neil M. Bressler, Susan B. Bressler, Stuart L. Fine, Age-related macular degeneration. Surv.
Ophthalmol. 32(6), 375–413 (1988)
8. R. Klein, B.E. Klein, T. Franke, The relationship of cardiovascular disease and its risk factors to
age-related maculopathy: the Beaver Dam Eye Study. Ophthalmology 100(3), 406–414 (1993)
9. J.R. Vingerling, I. Dielemans, A. Hofman, D.E. Grobbee, M. Hijmering, C.F. Kramer, P.T.
De Jong, The prevalence of age-related maculopathy in the Rotterdam Study. Ophthalmology
102(2), 205–210 (1995)
10. H. Hirvela, H. Luukinen, E. Laara, L. Laatikainen, Risk factors of age-related maculopathy in
a population 70 years of age or older. Ophthalmology 103(6), 871–877 (1996)
11. C. Duanggate, B. Uyyanonvara, A review of automatic drusen detection and segmentation from
retinal images, in the 3rd International Symposium on Biomedical Engineering, 222–225 2008
12. K. Rapantzikos, M. Zervakis, Nonlinear enhancement and segmentation algorithm for the
detection of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in human eye’s retina, in Proceedings
International Conference on Image Processing, vol. 3, pp. 1055– 1058 2001
13. K. Rapantzikos, M. Zervakis, K. Balas, Detection and segmentation of drusen deposits on
human retina; potential in the diagnosis of age-related macular degeneration. Med. Image
Anal. 7(1), 95–108 (2003)
14. P. Checco, F. Corinto, CNN-based algorithm for drusen identification, in Proceedings IEEE
International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2181–2184 2006
15. R.T. Smith, J.K. Chan, T. Nagasaki, U.F. Ahmad, I. Barbazetto, J. Sparrow, M. Figueroa, J.
Merriam, Automated detection of macular drusen using geometric background leveling and
threshold selection. Arch. Ophthalmol. 123(2), 200–206 (2005)
16. S.S. Parvathi, N. Devi, Automatic drusen detection from colour retinal images. in International
Conference on Computational Intelligence and Multimedia Applications, vol. 2, pp. 377–381
2007
17. N. Lee, A.F. Laine, T.R. Smith, Learning non-homogeneous textures and the unlearning problem with application to drusen detection in retinal images, In 5th IEEE International Symposium
on Biomedical Imaging, 1215–1218 2008
18. D.E. Freund, N. Bressler, P. Burlina, Automated detection of drusen in the macula, in 6th IEEE
International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, 61–64 2009