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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
In photographs of the eye used to screen for diabetes-related eye disease, separating out the red color channel can help show some abnormalities -- especially in racial/ethnic minority patients, suggests a study in the February issue of Optometry and Vision Science, official journal of the American Academy of Optometry. The journal is published by Wolters Kluwer.
Inspecting the channel for red (long-wavelength) reflected light can improve the ability to detect diabetic macular edema, a complication of diabetes that can lead to blindness. Using the red color channel of these images may have a special advantage in detecting macular edema in racial/ethnic minority patients -- in whom natural pigments in back of the eye tend to be darker. The lead author of the new study was Mastour A. Alhamami, PhD, of Indiana University School of Optometry, Bloomington.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/02/170203151600.htm
Inspecting the channel for red (long-wavelength) reflected light can improve the ability to detect diabetic macular edema, a complication of diabetes that can lead to blindness. Using the red color channel of these images may have a special advantage in detecting macular edema in racial/ethnic minority patients -- in whom natural pigments in back of the eye tend to be darker. The lead author of the new study was Mastour A. Alhamami, PhD, of Indiana University School of Optometry, Bloomington.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/02/170203151600.htm
