Learning from Everyday Images Enables Expert-like Diagnosis of Retinal Diseases.

Journal: Cell
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Abstract

Kermany et al. report an application of a neural network trained on millions of everyday images to a database of thousands of retinal tomography images that they gathered and expert labeled, resulting in a rapid and accurate diagnosis of retinal diseases.

Authors

  • Ladislav Rampasek
    SickKids Research Institute, 686 Bay Street, Toronto, ON M5G 0A4, Canada; Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, 40 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 2E4, Canada.
  • Anna Goldenberg
    SickKids Research Institute, 686 Bay Street, Toronto, ON M5G 0A4, Canada; Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, 40 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 2E4, Canada. Electronic address: anna.goldenberg@utoronto.ca.