Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Portraits reveal rare disorders

Doctors faced with the tricky task of spotting rare genetic diseases in children may soon be asking parents to email their family photos. A computer program can now learn to identify rare conditions by analysing a face from an ordinary digital photograph. It should even be able to identify unknown genetic disorders if groups of photos in its database share specific facial features.

Read the article in the New Scientist: Computer spots rare diseases in family photos

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