A new AI-based face-scanning technology is capable of identifying rare genetic disorders based on facial features alone, and that too just from a photograph. Called ‘DeepGestalt’, the software has been developed by US-based FDNA, and uses artificial intelligence “to detect physiological patterns that reveal disease-causing genetic variations”.
As pointed out by Spectrum, the technology is more efficient than trained doctors in diagnosing many genetic disorders in children. The study involved 17,000 images of children representing 200 different syndromes. Using computer vision and deep-learning algorithms, the face-scanning software out-performed clinicians with “91% top-10 accuracy in identifying the correct syndrome on 502 different images”.
Image Courtesy: FDNA (via Nature Medicine)