Science for All .#1
What's the connection between Alphabet, diabetic retinopathy and a wearable lens? Simple. A lens has been made by Calico Health Sciences, subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.The same lens can detect diabetic retinopathy better than a certified and experienced ophthalmologist. Now you must be wondering, HOW ON EARTH DOES THIS THING WORK? Before you gain an effective understanding of how Calico Inc's lens works. We need to understand the approach that many research teams successfully employed before this. The most prominent and successfully employed method, before this ,was the method of automatic detection of diabetic retinopathy using SIFT or Scale Invariant Feature Transform. SIFT is a computer algorithm which basically helps spot specific and localized features in high detail. I won't get into the finer details of this study as it requires some patience and concentration to assimilate all the detailed information in the study. Here's the link ...