AI outperforms human experts at detecting glaucoma, study finds

Artificial intelligence (AI) could help doctors make glaucoma screening widely available, a new study suggests.

A trained AI program correctly identified glaucoma patients 88 to 90 percent of the time, compared with 79 to 81 percent for human students, researchers reported Saturday at a meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) in Orlando, Florida.

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