Engineers at Baylor University have developed the Cradle app, with which users can diagnose early stages of eye disease.

The service will allow using the technologies of artificial intelligence to diagnose signs of eye diseases from photographs. For example, the system can detect possible retinoblastomas and cataracts.

Moreover, the application can be effective for people of different ages. For example, it can be used both for young children who cannot yet explain their vision problems, and for adults.

Artificial intelligence was trained on 53 thousand images of 40 children, half of which revealed various eye diseases. During testing, the technology found in 16 children the earliest eye diseases that the doctors missed.

The developers note that now Cradle has not received FDA approval, so the results can not be used as an official diagnosis.

Now the application is available both for users of the iOS operating system, and for Android.

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