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AI-powered eye test scientists hope could become screening tool for all
diabetics to detect diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN).
Researchers from the University of Liverpool and Manchester Metropolitan University are
tweaking equipment currently used by high street optometrists to detect diabetic peripheral
neuropathy (DPN).
Scientists are developing a test that will use artificial intelligence (AI) to detect DPN a major
complication of diabetes in the hope it could become a standard screening tool for those
living with the condition.
It will work by scanning nerves at the front of the eye rather than the back, with the AI
element of the device able to predict future damage.
Dr Uazman Alam from the Institute of Life Course and Medical Sciences at the University of
Liverpool said: