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Eye Exam Could Lead to Early Parkinson's Disease Diagnosis

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Monday, November 23, 2020

Diagnosis is typically based on symptoms like tremors, muscle stiffness and impaired balancean approach that has significant limitations.

Key Points: 
  • Diagnosis is typically based on symptoms like tremors, muscle stiffness and impaired balancean approach that has significant limitations.
  • These characteristics present an opportunity to leverage the power of AI to examine images of the eyes for signs of Parkinson's disease.
  • Using pictures of the back of the eye from both patients with Parkinson's disease and control participants, they trained the SVM to detect signs on the images suggestive of disease.
  • "The single most important finding of this study was that a brain disease was diagnosed with a basic picture of the eye," Diaz said.