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Tech: Researchers develop AI tech for detecting eye disease

A research team at Hunan University has successfully developed an artificial intelligence algorithm that can swiftly detect diabetic retinopathy, a common eye disease. The algorithm enables doctors to find signs of the disease from pictures with the help of a supercomputer. "After analyzing more than 80,000 retinal images, we found that the AI algorithm had a 91 percent accuracy rate of detecting diabetic retinopathy, which is on a par with an ophthalmologist," said Xi Ziwei, a member of the research team.