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13 July 2018
Summer 2018
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1. AI to diagnose refractive error

Artificial intelligence could be harnessed to diagnose refractive error from retinal fundus images.

Researchers trained an algorithm to predict refractive error with high accuracy from a total of 226,870 retinal fundus images, and validated it on two datasets: UK Biobank and the US Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS).

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