Latest DeepMind AI can spot more than 50 different eye diseases in an instant

Google-owned DeepMind is to collaborate with a UK hospital to help doctors spot more than 50 different eye diseases using AI. When it isn't creating artificial intelligence (AI) capable of destroying human opponents in a game of Go, Google-owned DeepMind is trying to build other systems that could transform healthcare, among other things. Now, the UK-based company has revealed a joint research partnership with Moorfields Eye Hospital that could help spot sight-threatening eye diseases much quicker than before. Publishing its findings in Nature Medicine, the company said that its latest AI can quickly run through eye scans taken from routine clinical practice and identify more than 50 serious diseases as accurately as world-leading expert doctors. Under existing systems, ophthalmologists use 3D images called optical coherence tomography (OCT) to create a detailed map of a person's eye.