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SteadyOphthalmology · updated 18 Oct 2026

Diabetic retinopathy screening

Screening for diabetic retinopathy, including autonomous AI.

48PubDaily Trend Score
+20%new papers vs last year
24new trials registered
1new guidelines this year

Papers per year

Each bar is 12 months; the last one ends 17 Oct 2026. New trials in the same years: 23, 20, 26, 31, 24.

New guidelines and consensus this year

  1. [Preexisting diabetes: Expert consensus from the College of French Gynecologists and Obstetricians and from the French Society of Diabetology]
    Gynecol Obstet Fertil Senol2026 Mar

All papers from the last 12 months

522 papers (18 Oct 2025 – 17 Oct 2026), newest first. Loading the full list…

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  1. Supportive care needs of patients with proliferative diabetic retinopathy: A qualitative study
    Int J Nurs Stud Adv2026 DecPMID 42866644
  2. Using the Normalization Process Theory to study facilitators and barriers to sustainable implementation of artificial intelligence-based diabetic retinopathy screening in Rwanda
    Dialogues Health2026 DecPMID 42569249
  3. Beyond hyperglycaemia: diabetic retinopathy is a multifactorial complication of diabetes mellitus
    Ann Med2026 DecPMID 42499200Review
  4. A hybrid CNN-GNN and multitask learning pipeline for improving mild diabetic retinopathy sensitivity
    MethodsX2026 DecPMID 42436968
  5. Hybrid deep learning models for diabetic retinopathy stage classification using fundus images
    J Diabetes Metab Disord2026 DecPMID 42381712
  6. The diagnostic accuracy of AI-assisted diabetic retinopathy screening in primary care: a prospective validation study
    Scand J Prim Health Care2026 DecPMID 42284159
  7. Design and validation of a responsible artificial intelligence-based system for the referral of diabetic retinopathy patients
    Health Inf Sci Syst2026 DecPMID 41399713
  8. Ocular Manifestations of Metabolic Syndrome: A Systemic Vascular Phenotype
    Diabetes Obes Metab2026 NovPMID 42477295Review
  9. Predicting the progression of proliferative diabetic retinopathy: Pathophysiology, imaging phenotypes, and determinants of disease persistence despite therapy
    Surv Ophthalmol2026 Nov-DecPMID 42314860Review
  10. Disorganization of inner retinal layers and disruption of outer retinal layers as predictors of anti-vascular endothelial growth factor treatment outcomes in diabetic macular edema: A scoping review
    Surv Ophthalmol2026 Nov-DecPMID 42176958

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How these numbers are counted

PubMed query, searched in titles and abstracts by publication date:

"diabetic retinopathy"[tiab] AND screening[tiab]

Trials: ClinicalTrials.gov studies first submitted in each 12-month window that match the same terms. A query can miss synonyms or catch unrelated papers, so treat counts as approximate.