Genetic Disorders

A range of rare genetic disorders is pinpointed by a deep-learning algorithm. This helps doctors and researchers by analysing pictures of people’s faces. Researchers describe the technology after the diagnostic aid, a smartphone app called Face2Gene. It relies on machine-learning algorithmsand brain-like neural networks . This is for classification of distinctive facial features in people’s photos with congenital and neurodevelopmental disorders. The patterns from the pictures are used for inference, the model homes in on possible diagnoses and provides a list of likely options. The technology is not intended to provide definitive diagnoses, albeit used by doctor...