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Researchers have taken photographs of children’s retinas and screened them using a deep learning AI algorithm to diagnose autism with 100% accuracy. The findings support using AI as an objective screening tool for early diagnosis, especially when access to a specialist child psychiatrist is limited.
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Other aspects weren’t 100%, such as identifying the severity (which was around 70%).
But if I gave a model pictures of dogs and traffic lights, I’d not at all be surprised if that model had a 100% success rate at determining if a test image was a dog or a traffic light.
And in the paper they discuss some of the prior research around biological differences between ASD and TD ocular development.
Replication would be nice and I’m a bit skeptical about their choice to use age-specific models given the sample size, but nothing about this so far seems particularly unlikely to continue to show similar results.
Other aspects weren’t 100%, such as identifying the severity (which was around 70%).
But if I gave a model pictures of dogs and traffic lights, I’d not at all be surprised if that model had a 100% success rate at determining if a test image was a dog or a traffic light.
And in the paper they discuss some of the prior research around biological differences between ASD and TD ocular development.
Replication would be nice and I’m a bit skeptical about their choice to use age-specific models given the sample size, but nothing about this so far seems particularly unlikely to continue to show similar results.