The Seminal Paper on Diabetic Retinopathy

Raj: Diabetic retinopathy is a complication of diabetes that causes blindness if not caught early enough and treated. We were working with folks in India that was actually doing the screening. They had a long history of doing screening to prevent blindness due to cataracts and other things. And they were seeing a growth in the number of people at risk for diabetic eye disease. So we wanted to help them generate labels for a data set that was coming from our partners in India to help.