Artificial Intelligence Getting Smarter! Innovations from the Vision Field

Posted on February 8th, 2022 by Michael F. Chiang, M.D., National Eye Institute One of many health risks premature infants face is retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), a leading cause of childhood blindness worldwide. ROP causes abnormal blood vessel growth in the light-sensing eye tissue called the retina. Left untreated, ROP can lead to lead to scarring, retinal detachment, and blindness. It's the disease that caused singer and songwriter Stevie Wonder to lose his vision. Now, effective treatments are available--if the disease is diagnosed early and accurately.