Advancing bag-of-visual-words representations for lesion classification in retinal images.

Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is a complication of diabetes that can lead to blindness if not readily discovered. Automated screening algorithms have the potential to improve identification of patients who need further medical attention. However, the identification of lesions must be accurate to be usef...

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Main Authors: Ramon Pires, Herbert F Jelinek, Jacques Wainer, Eduardo Valle, Anderson Rocha
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4041723?pdf=render