In search for Alzheimer's disease in the retina with AI - AIMed

"Eyes are the windows to the soul". It's probably many physicians' dreams to be able to tell what a patient has come down with by looking into their eyes. Researchers from the University College London (UCL) and Moorfields Eye Hospital are trying to realize this dream in a collaborative project called "AlzEye". By studying a database of eye scans which include details of patients' retina alongside with other vital health information, the research team hope to detect optical differences and see if they may be telltale signs of Alzheimer's disease. To facilitate the process, the team is engaging with Google DeepMind, to employ machine learning algorithms to go through scans and information of 300,000 patients aged 40 and above who had visited Moorfields between year 2008 and 2018.