By: Peter Wehrwein, Managing Editor, Briana Contreras
Medical specialities, such as ophthalmology, that rely on imaging are among the early and most successful adopters of artificial intelligence
They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. But images are also dense with data, and that is why ophthalmology is the vanguard of specialties using artificial intelligence (AI), explains Alfredo A. Sadun, M.D., Ph.D., chief of ophthalmology at UCLA’s Doheny Eye Institute.