What is it about?
Age related macular degeneration has wet and dry forms. The dry forms present with pigmentary changes and drusen, whereas the wet form presents with exudative or haemorrhagic changes. This article describes the strategies used to screen for this condition based on imaging the fundus.
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Why is it important?
Age related macular degeneration is a common cause of sight loss in older adults. There is no reliable way to screen for this in community programs.
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AMD is a common cause of blindness in elderly people.
Prof Louis Tong
National University of Singapore
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This page is a summary of: Automated detection of age-related macular degeneration using empirical mode decomposition, Knowledge-Based Systems, November 2015, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2015.09.012.
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