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This High Schooler Developed an A.I. Tool to Diagnose Autism and ADHD Using the Retina
Three years ago, Edward Kang was sifting through research papers for ideas for a school project when he came across an intriguing study by researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong that used retinal images to diagnose autism.
“I thought it was fascinating and really unintuitive that you can use something like the eye to understand what’s happening in the brain,” says Kang, now a 17-year-old high school senior at Bergen County Academies in Hackensack, New Jersey.
The teenager set out to make the researchers’ model even more accurate. Ultimately, these efforts led him to develop RetinaMind—an A.I. tool that diagnoses autism spectrum disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder using retinal images.
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