Moorfields Eye Hospital Shares One Million Eye Scans With Google DeepMind

The collaboration marks the first time DeepMind has applied machine learning to a healthcare project. The idea came to Pearse Keane, a consultant ophthalmologist at Moorfields, after he read a story about a DeepMind machine being trained to play Atari games. "I'd been reading about deep learning and the success that technology had had in image recognition," Keane told the Guardian. "I had the brainwave that deep learning could be really good at looking at the images of the eye." If successful, the technology will be capable of detecting eye conditions with a single digital scan.