Artificial intelligence is helping doctors accurately diagnose eye disease in 96 per cent of cases at Dubai Diabetes Centre. Thousands of routine eye scans have been fed into an AI programme to identify retinal damage caused by diabetes in a trial during February -- UAE Innovation Month. The programme's success could now lead to it being permanently adopted at the centre in 2nd of December Street, as it is helping doctors treat more patients at an earlier stage. "To diagnose diabetic retinopathy, regular retinal imaging is required and in some cases optical coherence tomography is also used," said Dr M Hamed Farooqi, director of Dubai Diabetes Centre. "This imaging test provides cross-sectional images of the retina that show the thickness of the retina, which will help determine whether fluid has leaked into retinal tissue."