Ophthalmology: A pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence

Ophthalmology, with its heavy reliance on imaging, is an innovator in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine. Although the opportunities for patients and health care professionals are great, hurdles to fully integrating AI remain, including economic, ethical, and data-privacy issues. Deep learning According to Konstantinos Balaskas, MD, FEBO, MRCOphth, a retinal expert at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, United Kingdom, and director of the Moorfields Ophthalmic Reading Centre and AI Analytics Hub, AI is a broad term. "The type of AI that has generated a lot of excitement in recent years is called'deep learning,' " he said. "This is a process by which software programs learn to perform certain tasks by processing large quantities of data." Deep learning is what has made ophthalmology a pioneer in the field of implementing AI in medicine, because we are increasingly reliant on imaging tests to monitor our patients.