In the future, an AI may diagnose eye problems - FeedBox

The computer will see you now. Artificial intelligence algorithms may soon bring the diagnostic know-how of an eye doctor to primary care offices and walk-in clinics, speeding up the detection of health problems and the start of treatment, especially in areas where specialized doctors are scarce. The first such program -- trained to spot symptoms of diabetes-related vision loss in eye images -- is pending approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. While other already approved AI programs help doctors examine medical images, there's "not a specialist looking over the shoulder of [this] algorithm," says Michael Abràmoff, who founded and heads a company that developed the system under FDA review, dubbed IDx-DR. "It makes the clinical decision on its own."