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Raphael Sznitman

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Raphael Sznitman (Image: ARTORG)

Professor Raphael Sznitman is a biomedical engineer at the University of Bern's ARTORG center, specialising in artificial intelligence (AI).

Leading the Ophthalmic Technology Lab, he and his team are trying to find out if AI could help the 500 million people that are likely by 2020 to be afflicted by the eye conditions glaucoma, age-macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy.