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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.
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Berks, M. et al. (2014). An Automated System for Detecting and Measuring Nailfold Capillaries. In: Golland, P., Hata, N., Barillot, C., Hornegger, J., Howe, R. (eds) Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2014. MICCAI 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8673. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10404-1_82
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