Using Retinal Images to Predict Risk of Eye and Systemic Diseases

From the team of Nazlee Zebardast and colleagues. Co-first authors Seyedeh Maryam Zekavat and Saman Doroodgar Jorshery. Featured in HMS News.

By combining retinal imaging, genetics, and big data, physician-researchers from Harvard Medical School, Mass. Eye and Ear, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have found that they can estimate how likely a person is to develop eye and systemic diseases in the future.

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