articleNature MedicineJan 4, 2024HYBRID OA

A deep learning system for predicting time to progression of diabetic retinopathy

LDLing DaiBSBin ShengTCTing‐Li ChenQWQiang WuRLRuhan Liu

Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital · +24 more institutions

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Abstract

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the leading cause of preventable blindness worldwide. The risk of DR progression is highly variable among different individuals, making it difficult to predict risk and personalize screening intervals. We developed and validated a deep learning system (DeepDR Plus) to predict time to DR progression within 5 years solely from fundus images. First, we used 717,308 fundus images from 179,327 participants with diabetes to pretrain the system. Subsequently, we trained and validated the system with a multiethnic dataset comprising 118,868 images from 29,868 participants with diabetes. For predicting time to DR progression, the system achieved concordance indexes of 0.754-0.846 and…

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Keywords
  • Medicine
  • Diabetic retinopathy
  • Concordance
  • Blindness
  • Diabetes mellitus
  • Fundus (uterus)
  • Ophthalmology
  • Artificial intelligence
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