Abrà moff, Michael D. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3490-0037
Lavin, Philip T.
Birch, Michele
Shah, Nilay
Folk, James C.
Funding for this research was provided by:
IDx LLC, Coralville, IA
Article History
Received: 28 May 2018
Revised: 6 July 2018
Accepted: 10 July 2018
First Online: 28 August 2018
Competing interests
: M.D.A. is shareholder, director, and employee of IDx, LLC, and has relevant patents and patent applications assigned to the University of Iowa; P.T.L. received fees from IDx, LLC for statistical consultancy; N.S. and M.B. declare no competing interests. J.C.F. is shareholder of IDx, LLC. Disclosure forms provided by the authors are available with the full text of this article. Patents (all issued) that may be affected by this study are: applied for by the University of Iowa, inventor M.D.A., 7,474,775, Automatic Detection of Red Lesions in Digital Color Fundus Photographs; 7,712,898, Methods and Systems for Optic Nerve Head Segmentation; 8,340,437, Methods and Systems for Determining Optimal Features for Classifying Patterns or Objects in Images; 9,924,867, Automated Determination of Arteriovenous Ratio in Images of Blood Vessels; applied by IDx, inventor M.D.A., 9,155,465, Snapshot Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomographer; 9,782,065, Parallel optical coherence tomography apparatuses, systems and related methods; 9,814,386, Systems and methods for alignment of the eye for ocular imaging.