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Detecting novel systemic biomarkers in external eye photos
Posted by Boris Babenko, Software Engineer, and Akib Uddin, Product Manager, Google Research Last year we presented results demonstrating that a deep learning system (DLS) can be trained to analyze external eye photos and predict a person’s diabetic retinal disease status and elevated glycated hemoglobin (or HbA1c, a biomarker that indicates the three-month average level of blood glucose). It was previously unknown that external eye photos contained signals for these conditions. This exciting ...