New AI accurately (and quickly) screens for diabetic eye disease

"More than 30 million Americans live with diabetes, and of those one in four will develop retinopathy, a disease in which high blood sugar levels cause damage to blood vessels in the retina, potentially causing them to swell and leak and impacting the patient’s vision. That’s the context for the recent announcement by the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) that an AI tool has been developed that, in tests, enabled..." Lire la suite