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ReviewFrontiers in public health2025

A panoramic perspective: application prospects and outlook of multimodal artificial intelligence in the management of diabetic retinopathy.

Chun Liu, Yu Duan, Hao Wu, Junguo Duan

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Review in Frontiers in public health, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Artificial intelligence in diabetic retinopathy: from automated screening to risk-stratified care.Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Chun Liu *Eye College of Chengdu University of TCM, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
Yu Duan *Ineye Hospital of Chengdu University of TCM, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
Hao WuEye College of Chengdu University of TCM, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
Junguo DuanEye College of Chengdu University of TCM, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a leading cause of blindness among the working-age population, and its management is challenged by the disease's inherent heterogeneity. Current management paradigms, based on standardized grading, are inadequate for addressing the significant inter-patient variability in disease progression and treatment response, thereby limiting the implementation of personalized medicine. While artificial intelligence (AI) has achieved breakthroughs in unimodal analysis of retinal images, the single dimension of information fails to capture the complete, complex pathophysiology of DR. Against this backdrop, multimodal AI, capable of integrating heterogeneous data from multiple sources, has garnered widespread attention and is regarded as a revolutionary tool to overcome current bottlenecks and achieve a panoramic understanding for the management of each patient. This review aims to systematically explore the frontier research and developmental potential of multimodal AI in DR management. It focuses on its data sources, core fusion technologies, and application framework across the entire management workflow. Furthermore, this review analyzes future challenges and directions, with the goal of providing a theoretical reference and guidance for the advancement of precision medicine in DR.

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Artificial IntelligenceDiabetic RetinopathyHumansPrecision Medicineartificial intelligencedata fusiondiabetic retinopathymultimodaprecision medicine

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PMID41626349
PMCPMC12855468

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