Supervised machine learning methods for image analysis require large amounts of labelled
training data to solve computer vision problems. The recent rise of deep learning algorithms …

Figures within biomedical articles present essential evidence of the relevance of a
publication in a curation workflow. In particular, visual cues of the image modality or …

Glaucoma is a leading cause of blindness worldwide whose detection is based on multiple
factors, including measuring the cup to disc ratio, retinal nerve fiber layer and visual field …

This thesis involved collecting retinal images from a local clinic in Calgary, Alberta. All
images have been anonymous and hence there is no way to identify corresponding …

Recently, inductive learning approaches using deep convolutional neural network models
have achieved impressive successes in knowledge and pattern discovery across diverse …