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Briefing
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- CRADLE Mobile App – Researchers developed smartphone app called CRADLE (Computer Assisted Detector of Leukoria) or White Eye Detector that can spot white eye in photos through machine learning
- Potential Eye Disorders – White eye can indicate retinoblastoma or retinal cancer present in children, and other eye disorders, such as retinopathy, cataracts or Coats Disease
- Early Disease Detection – Can save eyes and lives, especially because retinoblastoma tumors can metastasize to brain within six months to one year of presence of white eye
- Testing – Tested app with nearly 53,000 photos of 40 children, 20 of which have eye disease and the other half normal, and app recognized white eye on average one year before doctors diagnosed disease
- Disclaimer – Claimed app is not yet approved by U.S. Food and Drug Administration and that it does not diagnose retinoblastoma or other medical condition but can only spot white eye in photographs
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Accelerator
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Sector
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Healthcare/Health Sciences, Information Technology
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Function
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Research and Development
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Source
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Original Publication Date
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October 2, 2019
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