Deep learning system identifies diabetic retinopathy, related eye diseases

A machine-learning technology known as a deep learning system showed high sensitivity and specificity for recognizing diabetic retinopathy and related eye diseases among patients with diabetes, according to data published in JAMA.
“Screening for diabetic retinopathy, coupled with timely referral and treatment, is a universally accepted strategy for blindness prevention,” Daniel Shu Wei Ting, MD, PhD, from Singapore Eye Research Institute at Singapore National Eye Center and Duke-NUS Medical School at National University of Singapore, and colleagues wrote. “However, programs

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