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With the expansion of microarray, bulk RNA sequencing (RNA-seq), and single-cell RNA-seq technologies, artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a key strategy for analyzing high-dimensional gene expression data. This review synthesizes AI-enabled transcriptomic studies in ophthalmology from 2019 to 2025, highlighting how supervised and unsupervised machine learning (ML) methods have advanced biomarker discovery, cell type classification, and eye development and ocular disease modeling. Here, we discuss unsupervised techniques, such as principal component analysis (PCA), t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE), uniform manifold approximation and projection (UMAP), and weighted gene co-expression network analysis (WGCNA), now the standard in single-cell workflows. Supervised approaches are also discussed, including the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO), support vector machines (SVMs), and random forests (RFs), and their utility in identifying diagnostic and prognostic markers in age-related macular degeneration (AMD), diabetic retinopathy (DR), glaucoma, keratoconus, thyroid eye disease, and posterior capsule opacification (PCO), as well as deep learning frameworks, such as variational autoencoders and neural networks that support multi-omics integration. 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