Artificial intelligence, machine learning making strides in ophthalmology

WAIKOLOA, Hawaii — Ophthalmologists are using artificial intelligence and machine learning to develop programs to automate diagnoses, improve monitoring and help detect a variety of ophthalmic diseases in patients.
“We are being swamped with papers on this. You’re going to be swamped trying to understand this and reading about it and learning from it. There have been some spectacular things that have come out in the last year or two,” Andrew P. Schachat, MD, editor in chief of Ophthalmology Retina, said in a presentation at Hawaiian Eye 2019.
Several studies published

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