A systematic literature review of machine learning based risk prediction models for diabetic retinopathy progression.

Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is the most popular debilitating impairment of diabetes and it progresses symptom-free until a sudden loss of vision occurs. Understanding the progression of DR is a pressing issue in clinical research and practice. In this systematic review of articles on Machine Learning (ML) based risk prediction models for DR progression, ever since the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for DR detection, there have been more cross-sectional studies with different algorithms of use of AI, there haven't been many longitudinal studies for the AI based risk prediction models.