Software sees rare disorders in photos

• Autores: Andy Coghlan
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2975, 2014, pág. 12
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Doctors trying to spot rare genetic diseases in children may soon be asking parents to email their family photos. A computer program can now learn to identify rare conditions, such as the one Abraham Lincoln reportedly had, by analyzing a face from an ordinary digital photograph. Children can wait years for a clinical diagnosis because genetic tests aren't available for many conditions. This means doctors often rely on the pronounced facial features that occur in between 30% and 40% of rare disorders to make a diagnosis, but few people are trained to recognize such features. Christoffer Nellaker at the University of Oxford and his colleagues have developed software to make things easier.