Deep Learning Paves Way for Better Diagnostics

Stanford researchers are leveraging GPU-based machines in the Amazon EC2 cloud to run deep learning workloads with the goal of improving diagnostics for a chronic eye disease, called diabetic retinopathy. The disease is a complication of diabetes that can lead to blindness if blood sugar is poorly controlled. It affects about 45 percent of diabetics and 100 million people worldwide, many in developing nations. Final-year Stanford PhD students Apaar Sadhwani and Jason Su got involved in developing the diagnostic solution as part of a class project and corresponding Kaggle competition that was held last year. Sponsor Amazon provided AWS cloud credits in support of the research. Source: Automatic Grading of Eye Diseases Through Deep Learning, 2016 After Kaggle, the duo decided to turn their research project into a cloud-based platform that hospitals and clinics can use to…


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