Doctors at Moorfields eye hospital use AI to help diagnosis

Moorfields Eye Hospital doctors with no prior artificial intelligence (AI) expertise have developed their own accurate digital diagnosis models for a range of afflictions using Google software. Allowing clinicians who are not AI experts to develop algorithms which can be used to identify potential symptoms in patients could greatly speed up the diagnostic process, leading to earlier detection and treatment of disease. The team used a range of tools from Google Cloud AutoML, software developed specifically for people with limited experience in machine learning technology, to build five diagnostic systems. Medical images including eye scans, chest x-rays and skin lesions were categorised into databases to'train' the systems to provide diagnoses. Four of the five doctor-created models performed as well as diagnostic algorithms developed by AI professionals for simple tasks, making them comparable to state-of-the-art systems according to the study published in medical journal The Lancet Digital Health.