Identify Rare Diseases with a Selfie – News Center

A new deep learning app called Face2Gene lets doctors snap an image of a patient and receive a suggested diagnosis from thousands of genetic disorders. "One in 10 people suffer from a rare disease," said Dekel Gelbman, FDNA CEO, the company who developed the app. "Many of these are life threatening, and often extremely difficult to diagnose. These patients and their families suffer a great burden while trying to find answers to their symptoms, averaging seven years and seven doctors. FDNA helps healthcare providers find answers faster in hopes of saving lives and improving patient quality of life. We accomplish this through using the best technology in the world -- based on a combination of facial analysis, deep learning, and artificial intelligence and partnering with clinicians, researchers, labs, and ultimately with drug development companies that share our goal."