AI RESEARCH

Explainable Multi-Task Retinal Imaging Reveals Microvascular Signals for Systemic Risk Stratification in Type 2 Diabetes: A Pilot Study

arXiv CS.AI

ArXi:2605.24913v1 Announce Type: cross Retinal imaging provides a non-invasive window into systemic microvascular health and has emerged as a potential biomarker for systemic diseases. However, whether retinal features encode biologically meaningful systemic signals that can be reliably interpreted using explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) remains unclear. An explainable multi-task deep learning framework was developed to investigate associations between retinal microvascular features and systemic abnormalities in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.