Google and several Indian doctors are working together to use AI to detect diabetic retinopathy, a kind of nerve damage in eyes that, if not detected early, can lead to blindness.
Diabetes is the seventh leading cause of death in the world and the number of people suffering from it is on a rise. There are over 415 million diabetes patients in world out of which 78.3 million people are in South-East Asia. All of these people stand at a risk of getting diabetic retinopathy, a complication arising from diabetes that can eventually lead to blindness if left untreated.
While this condition is severe, what makes India particularly susceptible to the extreme effects of this disease is the lack of availability of eye specialists, which in turn leads to nearly 45 per cent patients suffering vision loss before diagnosis. Google, using AI, is hoping to help Indian doctors detect diabetic retinopathy early.
Google has developed an artificial intelligence model that can detect diabetic retinopathy by analyzing the scans of the retinas - the region at the back of the eye - using special cameras. This image is then analysed by Google's machine learning algorithm, which then grades those scans on a five-point scale ranging between no diabetic retinopathy or DR, which can be managed using a combination of diet and medication, to the most severe case, which may need a surgery.
"In 2016, we published a paper in the Journal of American Medical Association showing that this AI system was performing the level of the Generalists Since then we have made improvements to the algorithm, and now it is on par with the specialists," Google product manager Lily Peng said at the company's Solve with AI Conference in Tokyo on July 10.
Reference: https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/google-teams-up-with-indian-doctors-to-use-ai-to-help-diabetes-patients-in-india-1566874-2019-07-11
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Diabetes is the seventh leading cause of death in the world and the number of people suffering from it is on a rise. There are over 415 million diabetes patients in world out of which 78.3 million people are in South-East Asia. All of these people stand at a risk of getting diabetic retinopathy, a complication arising from diabetes that can eventually lead to blindness if left untreated.
While this condition is severe, what makes India particularly susceptible to the extreme effects of this disease is the lack of availability of eye specialists, which in turn leads to nearly 45 per cent patients suffering vision loss before diagnosis. Google, using AI, is hoping to help Indian doctors detect diabetic retinopathy early.
So how exactly Google Helping
Google has developed an artificial intelligence model that can detect diabetic retinopathy by analyzing the scans of the retinas - the region at the back of the eye - using special cameras. This image is then analysed by Google's machine learning algorithm, which then grades those scans on a five-point scale ranging between no diabetic retinopathy or DR, which can be managed using a combination of diet and medication, to the most severe case, which may need a surgery.
"In 2016, we published a paper in the Journal of American Medical Association showing that this AI system was performing the level of the Generalists Since then we have made improvements to the algorithm, and now it is on par with the specialists," Google product manager Lily Peng said at the company's Solve with AI Conference in Tokyo on July 10.
Reference: https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/google-teams-up-with-indian-doctors-to-use-ai-to-help-diabetes-patients-in-india-1566874-2019-07-11
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