AI app could transform eye health diagnosis
Technology used to detect structural anomalies in the ocular health of astronauts is being transferred to Earth in an app that uses generative AI to assess eye health.
In use, a person can take a picture of their eye with a smartphone and AI trained on thousands of healthy and impaired eyes will generate an image that makes it much easier for an ophthalmologist to make a diagnosis.
The AngioGenius technology has been developed by a team led by Dr Ethan Waisberg, an Academic Foundation Programme Doctor at Cambridge University, and a member of NASA’s Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Working Group.
Dr Waisberg got the idea whilst working on a NASA project that involved assessing changes in the eyes of astronauts over the course of long duration space missions.
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Over 75 per cent of astronauts in space experience some changes in their vision and can succumb to SANS (Spaceflight Associated Neuro-Ocular Syndrome), which can present in different ways at the expense visual function.
Dr Waisberg said assessing changes to an astronaut’s vision in the austere environment where they operate is extremely challenging.
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