| Literature DB >> 25333175 |
Michael Berks, Phil Tresadern, Graham Dinsdale, Andrea Murray, Tonia Moore, Ariane Herrick, Chris Taylor.
Abstract
Nailfold capillaroscopy is an established qualitative technique in the assessment of patients displaying Raynaud's phenomenon. We describe a fully automated system for extracting quantitative biomarkers from capillaroscopy images, using a layered machine learning approach. On an unseen set of 455 images, the system detects and locates individual capillaries as well as human experts, and makes measurements of vessel morphology that reveal statistically significant differences between patients with (relatively benign) primary Raynaud's phenomenon, and those with potentially life-threatening systemic sclerosis.Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID: 25333175 PMCID: PMC4936512 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-10404-1_82
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv