Can a computer tell me if I have diabetic retinopathy?
US News wrote an article about the potential use of artificial intelligence in detecting diabetic retinopathy.
Artificial intelligence refers to a computer’s ability to examine a retinal photo and be able to tell whether that patient has diabetic retinopathy as well as grade the severity of retinopathy. It uses a process called deep learning.
Remind me, what is deep learning?
Deep learning involves feeding a computer a lot of data which it uses to make decisions about other data. To give a real world example, it’s how Netflix comes up with what shows it thinks you want to watch.
