
BARCELONA, Spain — In this Healio Video Perspective from the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting, Jorge L. Alió del Barrio, MD, PhD, speaks about an AI-based project for the automated early diagnosis of keratoconus.
Diagnosing early keratoconus is critical in refractive surgery, but refractive surgery is usually not performed by cornea specialists. There is a need for automated tools for the diagnosis of suspected keratoconus, Alió del Barrio said.
Artificial neural networks have been developed based on topography data on the anterior and posterior