Saving sight: Using AI to diagnose diabetic eye disease

Diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of vision loss in adults, with 191 million people set to be affected by 2030. There are no early-stage symptoms and the disease may already be advanced by the time people start losing their sight. Now a team of Australian-Brazilian researchers have developed an image-processing algorithm that can automatically detect one of the key signs of the disease, fluid on the retina, with an accuracy rate of 98 percent.
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