Machine learning may open new opportunities for telemedicine, screening

NEW YORK — Advances in optic disc analysis software may soon offer new possibilities for telemedicine and screening patients for early signs of disease, a speaker said here.
“There is some evidence starting to appear that this sort of system can certainly detect optic nerve pathology and fairly well, apparently at a level that is equivalent to ophthalmologists,” Sameer Trikha, BM, BSc, FRCOphth, MBA, said at the American Glaucoma Society annual meeting.
Pegasus, a retinal analysis decision support system developed by the artificial intelligence company Visulytix, has shown a

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