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Opto-Electronic Engineering, Volume. 52, Issue 6, 250082(2025)

Multi-frequency Transformer-guided graph-based feature aggregation for retinal image quality grading

Liming Liang, Yi Zhong^*, Chengbin Wang, and Ting Kang

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School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, Ganzhou, Jiangxi 341000, China

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Category: Article

Received: Mar. 15, 2025

Accepted: May. 8, 2025

Published Online: Sep. 3, 2025

The Author Email: Yi Zhong (钟奕)

DOI:10.12086/oee.2025.250082

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