DeepMind Health Research and Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: What our research shows

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[Music] my name is Pierce Keene I'm a consultant ophthalmologists at Moorfields Eye Hospital Moorfields Eye Hospital is the oldest eye Hospital in the world in terms of worldwide basis more than 285 million people have some form of visual impairment and one of the key things is that in about 80% of those cases if those patients are diagnosed and treated that visual impairment is reversible the way that we've diagnose retinal diseases is using a technique called Oct an Oct is kind of like ultrasound and it gives us very very high resolution images of the back of people's eyes o CT imaging at Moorfields and in fact at AI hospitals all around the world has revolutionized ophthalmology to the extent that we now even in more fields do many thousands of o CT scans per week one of the challenges that we face is being able to analyze the o CT scans and make the diagnosis in a timely fashion and unfortunately that delays people getting the treatment that they need all the evidence suggests that if we can get earlier diagnosis we can start treatment earlier and we can save sight that's why we've been working with deep mind over the past 18 months to see whether artificial intelligence could help us solve this problem and so we're really excited now that we have the first results of this work my name is Trevor back I'm the research lead for Des Moines health diamond Health is researching how artificial intelligence could help solve some of the most pressing challenges in healthcare today we've been working with Moorfields Eye hospitals since 2016 we've been exploring whether we can develop artificial intelligence to help eye care professionals analyze Oh CT scans more effectively than they can at present that could give them a better and faster understanding of their patients eye disease the AI system we've been out to develop in collaboration with Moorfields is able to detect a wide range of different sight threatening diseases in these o CT scans and amazingly to the same accuracy as an expert doctor there's also able to do it while also providing information that enables eye care professionals to review the recommendation that it makes so the eye care professionals can scrutinize that decision and ensure that the right decision is taken for those patients I believe this technology could lead to a system where eye care professionals can prioritize those patients with the most serious eye conditions that can take us one step closer to preventing avoidable sight loss you