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 D’Ambrosio Eye Care at
800-325-3937, visit D’Ambrosio Eye
Care,
Google or
facebook.com/dambrosioeyecare so that we can help.
D'Ambrosio Eye Care provides eye care for patients throughout greater
Boston, central and western Massachusetts with office locations at 479 Old
Union Turnpike, Lancaster, Massachusetts 01523, 865 Merriam Avenue, Suite 119,
Leominster, Massachusetts 01453, 100 Powder Mill Road, Acton, Massachusetts
01720, 413 Main Street, Athol, Massachusetts 01331, 74 Main Street, Gardner,
Massachusetts 01440 and 255 Park Avenue, Suite 606, Worcester, Massachusetts
01609
