AI for Facial Syndromes
April 16, 2019 | Terry Sharrer
Artificial intelligence and machine learning usually begins with a “study set” of, say, protein markers or some other biological feature, and then trains a machine to identify a feature based on hundreds or thousands of prior examples. In this piece, an Israeli company in Boston, FDNA, has taught its “Deep Gestalt” computer program to recognize facial syndromes such as craniofacial synostosis, Noonan syndrome, positional plagiocephaly, et al. The idea, then, is to use this program with newborns or young children to diagnose conditions at a very early stage when they are most treatable. Many of these conditions arise from amino acid substitution. MORE
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