{"id":77729,"date":"2018-04-11T16:42:51","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T23:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/fda-approves-ai-powered-diagnostic-that-doesnt-need-a-doctors-help"},"modified":"2018-04-11T16:42:51","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T23:42:51","slug":"fda-approves-ai-powered-diagnostic-that-doesnt-need-a-doctors-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/fda-approves-ai-powered-diagnostic-that-doesnt-need-a-doctors-help","title":{"rendered":"FDA approves AI-powered diagnostic that doesn\u2019t need a doctor\u2019s help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fda-approves-ai-powered-diagnostic-that-doesnt-need-a-doctors-help.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Marking a new era of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/604271\/deep-learning-is-a-black-box-but-health-care-wont-mind\/\">\u201cdiagnosis by software,\u201d<\/a> the US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday gave permission to a company called IDx to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/NewsEvents\/Newsroom\/PressAnnouncements\/ucm604357.htm\">market an AI-powered diagnostic device<\/a> for ophthalmology.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What it does:<\/strong> The software is designed to detect greater than a mild level of diabetic retinopathy, which causes vision loss and affects 30 million people in the US. It occurs when high blood sugar damages blood vessels in the retina.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How it works:<\/strong> The program uses an AI algorithm to analyze images of the adult eye taken with a special retinal camera. A doctor uploads the images to a cloud server, and the software then delivers a positive or negative result.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/the-download\/610853\/fda-approves-first-ai-powered-diagnostic-that-doesnt-need-a-doctors-help\/\">https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/the-download\/610853\/fda-app...tors-help\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marking a new era of \u201cdiagnosis by software,\u201d the US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday gave permission to a company called IDx to market an AI-powered diagnostic device for ophthalmology. What it does: The software is designed to detect greater than a mild level of diabetic retinopathy, which causes vision loss and affects 30 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}