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Two colleagues at the University of North Texas Health Science Center were having a conversation about whether a new type of Glaucoma treatment might work. They theorized that with the help of artificial intelligence, treatments previously thought to be impossible, might become viable. That got the attention of The National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health, which awarded funding to UNTHSC for research.
More than 80 million individuals are affected by glaucoma globally; it is the leading cause of irreversible vision loss and blindness. See the full story on Dallas Innovates.
