AI Diagnosis Possible With Google's DeepMind Tools

An artifical intelligence (AI) diagnosis for eye disease is becoming more likely with Google's DeepMind. Computerworld reports that Google's AI business unit is using patient data from a U.K. hospital in an effort to teach computers how to detect early warning signs of sight loss. Although some hurdles currently exist in implementing health care AI, initiatives like this have potential to transform the future of patient care. The traditional way doctors look for certain eye diseases is to examine an area of the eye called the fundus by either using an ophthalmoscope or by taking a digital fundus scan. Optical coherence tomography is another diagnostic technique that uses a noninvasive, three-dimensional scan of the retina, according to Computerworld.