Meet Edward Kang, 17, who trained AI to screen for autism and ADHD

For his project, Kang trained AI models to detect patterns associated with neurodevelopmental disorders from a large public dataset of retinal images. Instead of one approach, he used several techniques to improve the performance of the models.What if a simple picture of the eye could help doctors diagnose neurodevelopmental conditions earlier? For 17-year-old Edward Kang of Hackensack, New Jersey, that question became the foundation for an ambitious science project that combines neuroscience, artificial intelligence and cell biology. His research, RetinaMind: Novel In Silico and In Vitro Retinal Models of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, investigated the potential for retinal images to provide clues related to autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), reports Society for Sc