A number of genetic diseases give their petients unique facial characteristics, Down’s syndrome probably being the most famous. While some physicians are able to spot specific diseases, there hasn’t been a systematic way of using facial features to diagnose disease. Some diseases, being extremely rare, often end up going unnoticed for years while being displayed openly on the person’s face. Now researchers from Oxford University have reported in journal eLife a new computer vision software that is able to provide ‘diagnostically relevant facial gestalt information from ordinary photos.”
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