Teenage Whiz Kid Invents an AI System to Diagnose Her Grandfather's Eye
  Disease
From: IEEE Spectrum - 08/03/2017
By: Ariel Bleicher

Eyeagnosis ia a a smartphone app plus 3D-printed lens that seeks to change
the diagnostic procedure from a 2-hour exam requiring a multi-thousand-dollar
retinal imager to a quick photo snap with a phone.

Kavya Kopparapu and her team - including her 15-year-old brother, Neeyanth,
and her high school classmate Justin Zhang - trained an artificial
intelligence system to recognize signs of diabetic retinopathy in photos of
eyes and offer a preliminary diagnosis.

Read the entire article at:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/diagnostics/teenage-whiz-kid-invents-an-ai-system-to-diagnose-her-grandfathers-eye-disease

Links:
Kavya Kopparapu
https://compscikavya.wordpress.com/author/kavyakopparapu
https://conferences.oreilly.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-ny/public/schedule/speaker/289188

Diabetic retinopathy
https://www.aao.org/eye-health/diseases/what-is-diabetic-retinopathy

Harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to diagnose diseases
https://conferences.oreilly.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-ny/public/schedule/detail/62762

Girls Computing League
http://girlscomputingleague.org

EyeGene database
https://eyegene.nih.gov

Related:
AI Medicine Comes to Africa’s Rural Clinics
http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/devices/ai-medicine-comes-to-africas-rural-clinics