Google''s Verily prioritizes patients by diagnosing retinopathy more accurately than ophthalmologists using deep neural networks

There are more than 415M rpeople living with diabetes at risk of blindness and AI can address the shortage of doctors assisting with early diagnosis and starting treatment on time. Over 45% of patients don''t see a doctor until there is some loss of vision.

Google-Verily uses image recognition AI based on Convolutional Neural Networks to provide access to treatment to patients at risk of blindness caused by diabetes by analyzing retinal scans and providing early diagnosis and prioritizing according to risk.

Proof of concept; results not yet available. However, expected to achieve faster throughput and lower error rates.