Currently, DR is diagnosed through regular screening of diabetes patients, where an expert clinician examines specialized fundus photography of the retina to identify the presence of lesions. Interpreting these images requires specialized training and is often a manual, time-intensive and subjective process to rate them for the disease presence and severity.
About 90% of the world's visually impaired live in low-income settings and developing countries, some with limited access to transportation and specialists3. Emerging computer vision methods to identify and classify lesions in an image within 20 seconds could create new levels of efficiency, which could help clinicians screen a greater number of diabetes patients, and quickly refer those who need specialist care.
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"Recent advancements in deep learning and image analytics technologies are showing significant promise in the potential to help solve some of the greatest health challenges we face today," said Dr. Joanna Batstone, Vice President and Lab Director of IBM Research Australia. "Automated and highly accurate DR screening methods have the potential to help doctors screen far more patients than currently possible."
IBM Research globally continues to advance research combining cognitive technology with medical images. Through its 12 collaborative labs worldwide, IBM Research is focused on research projects involving medical imaging analysis for diseases such as melanoma, breast cancer, lung cancer and eye disease.
The research results were presented at the IEEE's International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) this week in Melbourne.
Related Resources
IBM Research Healthcare & Life Sciences website - http://www.research.ibm.com/healthcare-and-life-sciences/
IBM Research Blog: Spotting Diabetic Retinopathy by analyzing medical images pixel by pixel - https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2017/04/spotting-diabetic-retinopathy/
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