Artificial intelligence can identify genetic diseases at first glance

Artificial intelligence can detect genetic diseases at first glance, based on certain facial features, is written in a study published in the magazine “Nature Medicine”.

This thing is able to make the system “DeepGestalt”, after three years of training with 17,000 images of people affected by more than 200 genetic diseases, which is expected to become a valuable instrument for obtaining early diagnostics and creating special therapies.

“DeepGestalt” was created in the US, by the group headed by Yaron Gurovich and Karen Grip, of the company FDNA, specialised in artificial intelligence application in analyzing large quantities of data.

“genetics hit 8% of the population, and many of them appear with distinctive features on the face, as recent studies have shown that facial analysis technologies can provide useful information to process diagnostics. However, these technologies are able to identify a limited number of diseases”, researchers write.

For this reason, the system, the DeepGestalt, is considered a long-awaited turn in genetic medicine”, Gripp stressed.

This system is able to recognize a genetic disease in 90% of cases, and in three cases it has even come to know diseases that experts had not been able to detect.