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Using AI to interpret eye images for major health risks
It can screen for life-threatening conditions like brain tumours
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Images of the ocular fundus (inside, back surface of the eye) showing the optic nerve head - the region where the blood vessels converge - in a normal patient (left) and in a patient with subtle abnormalities associated with a brain tumour.
PHOTOS: SINGAPORE NATIONAL EYE CENTRE
Joyce Teo Senior Health Correspondent, Joyce Teo
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An artificial intelligence (AI) system can look at photographs of the back of the eye and accurately detect if there is an eye condition that points to a brain tumour or other life-or vision-threatening conditions.
It sounds almost too good to be true, but Professor Dan Milea, a neuro-ophthalmologist and a senior consultant at the Singapore National Eye Centre (SNEC), said this game-changing concept has recently been proven.
