How far can DeepSeek-R1 and OpenAI see in ophthalmology diagnosis and decision making?

Meltem Yashar; Yannis M. Paulus

doi:10.21037/jmai-2026-1-0009

How far can DeepSeek-R1 and OpenAI see in ophthalmology diagnosis and decision making?

Meltem Yashar
, Yannis M. Paulus

School of Medicine

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Original language	English (US)
Article number	47
Journal	Journal of Medical Artificial Intelligence
Volume	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.21037/jmai-2026-1-0009
State	Published - May 30 2026

Keywords

DeepSeek-R1
diagnostic accuracy
Large language models (LLMs)
OpenAI
ophthalmology

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Medicine (miscellaneous)
Artificial Intelligence

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10.21037/jmai-2026-1-0009

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