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
The Eye Care & Surgery Center at 908-789-8999, visit The Eye Care & Surgery Center, Google or facebook.com/eyecareandsurgerycenter to schedule an
appointment.
The Eye Care & Surgery Center is located at 592 Springfield
Avenue, Westfield, New Jersey 07090, 10 Mountain Boulevard, Warren, New Jersey
07059 and 517 Route One South, Suite 1100, Iselin, New Jersey 08830, and is conveniently located for patients from throughout
central and northern New Jersey.
