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You don’t need to visit an optician. A family doctor with a lantern can do it (and normally they do). It’s a very simple test. It’s not a ML or AI challenge at
by logronoide 9y ago
You don’t need to visit an optician. A family doctor with a lantern can do it (and normally they do).
It’s a very simple test. It’s not a ML or AI challenge at all.
- mkagenius 9y agoBut if you have AI, you do not need the optician/doctor. For example people in Poor countries have no access to such a person.
- JustSomeNobody 9y agoI don't think anyone would say don't build the AI/ML. Just that the technology already exists. Until then, people should continue to see their eye Dr when one is available to them.
- txcwpalpha 9y agoThere are a few startups/companies that specialize in going to poor countries and using lens attachments on cell phones to do eye exams. They send in people who aren't doctors, take a picture of the eye, and email/upload the pictures to doctors who can analyze it for issues. IIRC, in those situations, the problem isn't the accessibility to a doctor, but rather the accessibility to someone who has a device capable of imaging the eye. I imagine this would be the same. Replacing the doctor with an AI doesn't really solve the problem.
- skybrian 9y agoBut it might make it cheaper and more consistent. It's the same advantage as automating anything else.
- squiggleblaz 9y agoIt might be way easy to sell to a nineteen year old looking for a gap year activity. "Go to PNG, meet some people, save their life. Look, you just take a photo, and minutes later it says 'They need help'". The doctor reading the image is going to take days or who knows how long.
- candiodari 9y agoImaging the retina is not something that can be done by holding a phone to your eye, unless I'm mistaken. So you'd still need the optician/doctor, if only because they have necessary equipment.