In Hong Kong, one in 10 elders aged 70 or more suffers from a cognitive disorder; more than half of the patients have Alzheimer’s disease.
A medical team of the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s (CUHK) Faculty of Medicine has recently developed the world’s first artificial intelligence model using photographs of the fundus (back interior surface of the eye) alone to detect Alzheimer’s disease. [1]
With a single retinal image scan, the system can detect Alzheimer’s disease with over 80 percent accuracy.
The Automatic Retinal Image Analysis (ARIA-stroke) system is user-friendly, non-invasive, cost-effective, and helps to identify high-risk cases of recessive Alzheimer’s disease. [2]…