Researchers have taken photographs of children’s retinas and screened them using a deep learning AI algorithm to diagnose autism with 100% accuracy. The findings support using AI as an objective screening tool for early diagnosis, especially when access to a specialist child psychiatrist is limited.
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You can’t just believe something because it’s been peer-reviewed. It is an absolutely minimal requirement for credibility these days but the system does not work well at all.
In this case, the authors acknowledge the need for more studies to establish how generalisable their findings are. It’s the first attempt at building a tool, it doesn’t mean anything at all until the findings are reproduced by an independent group.
totally agree, peer reviewing is the bare minimum, but it IS a step above any old article published on a random website. also would like to acknowledge the limitations of this particular study. fair criticism and is something the authors brought up in their paper too.
my reply was in response to the original commenter mentioning that there was no link to the study at all.
JAMA Network Open is a pay-to-publish journal, but it’s from a reputable publisher. There are a few other studies, albeit smaller, that came to similar conclusions (e.g., 95% AUC) and have been published in other journals. Autism is linked to a number of retinal abnormalities that can be detected from photographs. This could be a real thing.
At the bottom of the article, the paper has been published in a peer reviewed journal.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2812964
You can’t just believe something because it’s been peer-reviewed. It is an absolutely minimal requirement for credibility these days but the system does not work well at all.
In this case, the authors acknowledge the need for more studies to establish how generalisable their findings are. It’s the first attempt at building a tool, it doesn’t mean anything at all until the findings are reproduced by an independent group.
totally agree, peer reviewing is the bare minimum, but it IS a step above any old article published on a random website. also would like to acknowledge the limitations of this particular study. fair criticism and is something the authors brought up in their paper too.
my reply was in response to the original commenter mentioning that there was no link to the study at all.
JAMA Network Open is a pay-to-publish journal, but it’s from a reputable publisher. There are a few other studies, albeit smaller, that came to similar conclusions (e.g., 95% AUC) and have been published in other journals. Autism is linked to a number of retinal abnormalities that can be detected from photographs. This could be a real thing.
Totally agree, like for those vaccins. It’s not because they are published they are safe ! /s.
Sidebar: this talk of papers reminded me of
Isn’t it a part of what someone printed on their neighbor’s wifi printer ?