A New AI-Powered Eye Exam Reduces Errors By 74%

sciencehabit quotes Science magazine: The classic eye exam may be about to get an upgrade. Researchers have developed an online vision testfueled by artificial intelligence (AI)that produces much more accurate diagnoses than the sheet of capital letters we've been staring at since the 19th century. If perfected, the test could also help patients with eye diseases track their vision at home... [W]hen the researchers ran their "Stanford acuity test" (StAT) through 1000 computer simulations mimicking real patients, the diagnostic reduced error by 74% compared with the classic eye test, the team reports this month in the Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. The simulations work by starting with a known acuity score and factors in the types of mistakes a human might make. It then virtually "takes" the different eye tests in order to compare how accurate they are. The team used this instead of actual patients because it starts with the "true" acuitysomething unknown in a human. You can take StAT yourself at myeyes.ai, although the team cautions that the test isn't meant to replace doctor visits just yet.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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