According
to the Centers
for Disease Control (CDC) more than 29 million people in the U.S. have diabetes and are therefore
at risk for diabetic retinopathy and its associated vision loss and potential
blinding complications. All diabetics should have regular eye exams with
thorough retina exams. The task of diabetic eye exams is enormous and soon will
be assisted by Google Artificial Intelligence disease detecting software.
Researchers, reporting in Ophthalmology, the journal of the American Academy of
Ophthalmology showed that by using Google
software to analyze images and then having retina specialists provide input to
refine the algorithms, it allowed the computer software disease detection
software to become roughly as effective at the retina specialists. This
technique of using machine learning “neural networks” to refine disease
detection is hopefully able to bring even more effective early detection and
diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy to those at risk.
If you
or someone you know has diabetes please be sure to have regular eye exams as
early detection, diagnosis and treatment are the keys to preventing vision loss
from diabetes. Schedule a diabetic eye exam at Alabama Eye & Cataract Center,
P.C. in Birmingham at 205-930-0930, visit Alabama Eye & Cataract Center, Google+ or www.facebook.com/alabamaeyeandcataractcenter.
Michelson Laser Vision, Inc. and Alabama Eye
& Cataract Center, P.C. are leading eye care centers in Birmingham located
at UAB-Highlands, 1201 11th Avenue S, Suite 501, Birmingham, Alabama 35205 and
staffed by UAB Medicine eye doctors and eye specialists.
