CUHK Medical Researchers Develop World’s First AI Retinal Imaging Analysis to Detect Alzheimer’s Disease

The Chinese University of Hong Kong Medical Centre hopes the new artificial intelligence system will become a helpful tool for community screening for Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders. Sung Pi-Lung/The Epoch Times

In Hong Kong, one in 10 elders aged 70 or more suffers from a cognitive disorder; more than half of the patients have Alzheimer’s disease.

A medical team of the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s (CUHK) Faculty of Medicine has recently developed the world’s first artificial intelligence model using photographs of the fundus (back interior surface of the eye) alone to detect Alzheimer’s disease. [1]