OHSU study finds AI detects blindness in babies better than human doctors

An Oregon Health& Science University study uncovered an area where artificial intelligence appears to perform better than human doctors. An algorithm that uses AI was able to more accurately diagnose a potentially devastating cause of childhood blindness 91 percent of the time. A team of eight physicians with expertise in retinopathy of prematurity, or ROP, examined the same images with an average accuracy rate of 82 percent. Many children around the world go undiagnosed, so the findings could…
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