A deep learning model for novel systemic biomarkers in photographs of the external eye: a retrospective study.

Journal: The Lancet. Digital health
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Photographs of the external eye were recently shown to reveal signs of diabetic retinal disease and elevated glycated haemoglobin. This study aimed to test the hypothesis that external eye photographs contain information about additional systemic medical conditions.

Authors

  • Boris Babenko
    Google Health, Google, Mountain View, CA, USA.
  • Ilana Traynis
    Google Health via Advanced Clinical, Deerfield, IL, USA.
  • Christina Chen
    From Google Health, Google, 3400 Hillview Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304 (A.B.S., C.C., Z.N., Y. Liu, K.E., D.T., N.B., S.S.); Google Research, Cambridge, Mass (Y. Li, A.M., A.S., J.H., D.K.); Google via Advanced Clinical, Deerfield, Ill (C.L.); Apollo Radiology International, Hyderabad, India (S.R.K.); and Northwestern Medicine, Chicago, Ill (M.E., F.G.V., D.M.).
  • Preeti Singh
    Division of Surgical Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
  • Akib Uddin
    Google Health, Palo Alto, California.
  • Jorge Cuadros
    EyePACS LLC, San Jose, California4School of Optometry, Vision Science Graduate Group, University of California, Berkeley.
  • Lauren P Daskivich
    Ophthalmic Services and Eye Health Programs, Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Department of Ophthalmology, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine/Roski Eye Institute, Los Angeles, CA USA.
  • April Y Maa
    Department of Ophthalmology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia; Ophthalmology Section, Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Atlanta, Georgia.
  • Ramasamy Kim
    Aravind Medical Research Foundation, Aravind Eye Care System, Madurai, India.
  • Eugene Yu-Chuan Kang
    Department of Ophthalmology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
  • Yossi Matias
    Google Research, Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA, USA.
  • Greg S Corrado
    Google Health, Palo Alto, CA USA.
  • Lily Peng
    Google Inc, Mountain View, California.
  • Dale R Webster
    Google Inc, Mountain View, California.
  • Christopher Semturs
    Google Health, Google LLC, Mountain View, California.
  • Jonathan Krause
    Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.
  • Avinash V Varadarajan
    Google Research, Google, Mountain View, CA, USA.
  • Naama Hammel
    Google Research, Google, LLC, Mountain View, California.
  • Yun Liu
    Google Health, Palo Alto, CA USA.