Decoding systemic vascular health and hypertensive disorders in pregnancy through retinal imaging and Visionary AI.

Visionary AI predicts hypertensive disorders in pregnancy with 0.91 AUC using retinal vascular features, enabling early, biologically grounded risk assessment.

• Why it matters: Current screening methods for hypertensive pregnancy disorders are imprecise and challenging, risking delayed diagnosis and intervention. Understanding systemic vascular health early could improve outcomes for both mother and fetus.
• What they did: The approach integrates retinal imaging with graph-based vascular modeling in an interpretable AI platform, analyzing microvascular topology, geometry, and network complexity in 1,267 pregnancies.
• The result: The model demonstrated strong predictive performance, maintaining accuracy in external validation, and highlights the maternal retina as a minimally invasive biosensor for systemic vascular health, aiding pregnancy risk stratification.