AI tool can scan your retina and predict your risk of heart disease 'in 60 seconds or less'

"The study adds to a growing body of knowledge that the eye can be used as a window to the rest of the body," Pearse Keane, a researcher in ophthalmology and AI analysis not connected to the study, told The Verge. "Doctors have known for more than a hundred years that you could look in the eye and see signs of diabetes and high blood pressure. But the problem was manual assessment: the manual delineation of the vessels by human experts." The use of machine learning, says Keane, can overcome this challenge.