Artificial Intelligence Effective in Helping to Diagnose Rare Diseases

“Artificial intelligence (AI) may hold the key to diagnosing rare hereditary diseases more efficiently, according to a new study. Approximately 500,000 children are born with a genetic disease every year and obtaining a definitive, accurate diagnosis can be difficult and time-consuming—time that could be spent on treatment and therapy. Scientists from the University of Bonn and the Charité & Universitätsmedizin Berlin developed a neural network that uses portrait photos along with genetic and patient data that can diagnose rare diseases more efficiently and reliably than before. The network, named DeepGestalt, was developed by FDNA, an AI and digital health company. The software was trained with approximately 30,000 portraits.”