impossible → routine
Diabetic eye screening
Detecting diabetic eye disease from a photograph of the retina.
Impossible
A deep network detects diabetic retinopathy in retinal photographs on par with the ophthalmologists it was measured against, in a JAMA paper.
F-score 0.95 versus a median 0.91 for eight ophthalmologists
source1 year, 4 months
Routine
The FDA permits marketing of IDx-DR, the first device authorized to use AI autonomously to detect a medical condition — its results do not require review by a specialized clinician.
first autonomous AI diagnostic authorized by the FDA
sourceThe routine end is dated to the FDA's action, 11 April 2018, not to the
vendor's announcement the following day — the distinction matters because
the what names the FDA as the actor. The FDA's own press release for
this authorization no longer resolves, so the receipt here is a
contemporaneous legal note that states the action date and the autonomy
finding in its own words.