Ferry et al. have developed a new computer algorithm that extracts phenotypic information from patient photographs to facilitate diagnosis of genetic diseases with known facial morphologies. This algorithm does not require clinical photographs or special three-dimensional imaging and can instead use two-dimensional images from sources such as family photo albums. In addition, it groups patients phenotypically into clusters, which can aid the investigation of undefined diseases or extremely rare disorders.
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Ferry, Q. et al. Diagnostically relevant facial gestalt information from ordinary photos. eLife 3, e02020 (2014)
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Lokody, I. Facing disease — new algorithm to aid diagnosis. Nat Rev Genet 15, 514 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrg3791
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