AI Eye Checks Can Predict Heart Disease Risk In Less Than Minute, Finds Study (theguardian.com) 17
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: An artificial intelligence tool that scans eyes can accurately predict a person's risk of heart disease in less than a minute, researchers say. [...] Researchers developed a fully automated AI-enabled tool, Quartz, to assess the potential of retinal vasculature imaging -- plus known risk factors -- to predict vascular health and death. They used the tool to scan images from 88,052 UK Biobank participants aged 40 to 69. The researchers looked specifically at the width, vessel area and degree of curviness of the arteries and veins in the retina to develop prediction models for stroke, heart attack and death from circulatory disease. They subsequently applied the models to the retinal images of 7,411 participants, aged 48 to 92, of the European prospective investigation into cancer (Epic)-Norfolk study. The performance of Quartz was compared with the widely used Framingham risk scores framework.
Everyone's health was tracked for an average of seven to nine years. In men, the width, curviness and width variation of veins and arteries in their retinas were found to be important predictors of death from circulatory disease. In women, artery area and width and vein curviness and width variation contributed to risk prediction. The AI tool harnessed data from participants including any history of smoking, drugs to treat high blood pressure, and previous heart attacks. Researchers found the retina data computed by Quartz was significantly associated with cardiovascular disease, deaths and strokes, with similar predictive performance to the Framingham clinical risk score. Their findings were published in the British Journal of Ophthalmology.
Everyone's health was tracked for an average of seven to nine years. In men, the width, curviness and width variation of veins and arteries in their retinas were found to be important predictors of death from circulatory disease. In women, artery area and width and vein curviness and width variation contributed to risk prediction. The AI tool harnessed data from participants including any history of smoking, drugs to treat high blood pressure, and previous heart attacks. Researchers found the retina data computed by Quartz was significantly associated with cardiovascular disease, deaths and strokes, with similar predictive performance to the Framingham clinical risk score. Their findings were published in the British Journal of Ophthalmology.
Seems a solid study and application.... (Score:4, Funny)
But 'AI Eye'? That's a painful phrase there...
Re:Seems a solid study and application.... (Score:4, Funny)
More like "AI for an eye"
Came for glasses (Score:5, Funny)
EyeI (Score:4, Funny)
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Hey, you asked me to let you know when you can walk into a Walgreens and get such a scan. You can walk into a Walgreens and get such a scan now.
To clarify, the actual devices that perform these scans already exist and have for decades. The actual AI technique of examining the images for signs of heart problems is what's new. Basically, by training AIs on these images, they're discovering that the AIs can notice all kinds of things that human optometrists or ophthalmologists are not readily able to spot. Thi
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I live in the Central US and get around quite a bit to other states and different parts of the state. I go into a lot of Walgreens to fill prescriptions of mine. I personally have never seen anything even approaching what you are describing: a biometric scanner that will give me a diagnosis or risk percentage for .... anything.
To be clear, that's not exactly what I described. What I described is a camera that can take a microscopic picture of your retina. Try looking for scanning laser ophthalmoscope [duckduckgo.com] or SLO image retina [duckduckgo.com] to get an idea of what I'm talking about. Devices like that are readily available at ophthalmology, optometry and vision centers across the country. Some doctors don't have them and just use holographic lenses, etc. to manually inspect the eye and take their own notes rather than keeping images, but lots do. That
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Sounds a lot less flippant and a lot more accurate now that you've gone into some detail and clarified your position.
Well, the first line of my original post was, indeed flippant. I own up to that entirely. I meant it to be flippant. However, I should note that my second paragraph from the original post actually did go into some detail on this and was explicitly intended to clarify. That's why it started with "To clarify..." I said in that paragraph that the AI technique was the thing that was new, but the hardware to take this kind of scan had been around for decades. My later reply was a lot longer, but it did not reall
Add the AI front end to a smartphone APP (Score:1)
Retinal scan tells if you have hypertension (Score:2)
A retinal scan, examined by an experienced ophthalmologist, can tell if you have hypertension.
The veins at the back of the retina widen if you that, and they don't go back to their original size if you go on medication.
So it is a good diagnostic for that, at least.
No better than existing method (Score:1)
Should be open source and free (Score:1)
But a more accurate test exists? (Score:1)