Physicians specializing in ophthalmology develop comprehensive medical and surgical care of the eyes. Ophthalmologists diagnose and treat vision problems. They may treat strabismus, diabetic retinopathy, or perform surgeries on cataracts or corneal transplantation.
There are several subspecialties within the ophthalmology field, including the following:
- Anterior segment/cornea ophthalmology
- Glaucoma ophthalmology
- Neuro-ophthalmology
- Ocular oncology
- Oculoplastics/orbit
- Ophthalmic Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
- Retina/uveitis
- Strabismus/pediatric ophthalmology
(definition from here)
- Deep Learning for Detection of Diabetic Eye Disease - Google - 2016.
- Ridge-based vessel segmentation in color images of the retina
- A deep-learning system for the assessment of cardiovascular disease risk via the measurement of retinal-vessel calibre, 2020
- A global review of publicly available datasets for ophthalmological imaging: barriers to access, usability, and generalisability
- Digital Retinal Images for Vessel Extraction (DRIVE) The DRIVE database is for comparative studies on segmentation of blood vessels in retinal images. It consists of 40 photographs out of which 7 showing signs of mild early diabetic retinopathy.