Artificial Intelligence

AI is poised to revolutionize medicine. An overview of the field, with selected applications in ophthalmology. From the back of the eye to the front, artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to give ophthalmologists new automated tools for diagnosing and treating ocular diseases. This transformation is being driven in part by a recent surge in attention to AI's medical potential from big players in the digital world like Google and IBM. But, in ophthalmic AI circles, com puterized analytics are being viewed as the path toward more efficient and more objective ways to interpret the flood of images that modern eye care practices produce, according to ophthalmologists involved in these efforts. The most immediately promising computer algorithms are in the field of retinal diseases.