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Could AI help prevent diabetes-related sight loss?


Artificial intelligence has been trained to examine eye scans for a condition that can cause blindness.

One thing that helped him climb out of his despair was the support of the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association, which connected him with a black Labrador named Spencer. “Normally we use it more as a support tool to give information to the human to make a decision,” says João Diogo Ramos, Retmarker’s chief executive. This was a far cry from the realities of occasionally dirty lenses, unpredictable lighting, and camera operators with different levels of training.

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