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Simulating a colour-blind ophthalmologist for diagnosing and staging diabetic retinopathy.

Saif Aldeen S AlRyalatRuba MuhtasebTaher Alshammari
Published in: Eye (London, England) (2020)
Colour vision is important for distinguishing fine details during retina assessment in diabetic retinopathy patients. Colour blindness is associated with low accuracy in staging diabetic retinopathy and macular oedema, particularly among protonopic graders, and to a lesser extent in tritanopic graders.
Keyphrases
  • diabetic retinopathy
  • optical coherence tomography
  • end stage renal disease
  • lymph node
  • ejection fraction
  • newly diagnosed
  • pet ct
  • chronic kidney disease
  • air pollution
  • optic nerve
  • age related macular degeneration