Using AI to Predict Visual Impairment

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16/1/2024

Author: Shivam

A machine learning model has been developed by the Japanese researchers to predict visual impairment.

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It is trained to detect long-term visual defect in patients with high myopia.

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Researchers involved a group of more than 950 patients and 34 variables with high myopia.

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Variables include age, visual impairment and myopic maculopathy.

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Then different machine learning models were applied to the data.

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They found out a logistic regression-based model was the most accurate for predicting visual impairment.

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The researchers pointed out four factors that have most influence over a person's future risk of visual impairment.

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