Chronic kidney disease and type 2 diabetes can be detected from retinal photographs using deep-learning models trained on large datasets.
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Mitani, A., Hammel, N. & Liu, Y. Retinal detection of kidney disease and diabetes. Nat Biomed Eng 5, 487–489 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-021-00747-4
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