Google subsidiary Deep Mind puts algorithms against blindness – NU.nl

The company believes that its software can detect such diseases in the eye scans. Therefore, a partnership with the British NHS healthcare system.

The NHS will provide a million anonymous eye scans to Deep Mind, so the company because its technology can let go on. The Deep Mind technology is already used by Google in the Google Photos to identify the content of images and photos to make them searchable.

will be examined in collaboration with London’s Moorfields Eye Hospital or Deep Mind macular degeneration and diabetic can identify retinopathy. These are, respectively, a disease of the retina and eye disease that can result from diabetes.

“If you have diabetes, there are 25 times more likely that you will be blind,” said Mustafa Suleyman, co- founder of Deep Mind, against The Guardian . “If we can detect that, and there may be early, it could possibly 98 percent of the severe vision loss can be prevented.”

Doctor

Deep Mind uses “neural networks ‘, computer systems with a structure similar to that of the human brain. By examining a lot of data and get feedback from people, such systems are getting better at a task, such as recognizing images.

The collaboration between Deep Mind and Moorfields started after a doctor decided to Google due to subsidiary. He had read about the company’s techniques and thought they could make a difference in the treatment of eye disease.

Experience

By automating watching eye scans, would be a lot more scans can be studied. “I need the experience of my entire life to follow the history of one patient,” says Professor Peng Tee Khaw, research leader at Moorfields. Smart algorithms would, according to him have “the experience of 10,000 lifetimes.”

Deep Mind worked once before with the NHS, via an app that keeps track of renal patients. But there was commotion about patient privacy, because sensitive health data is shared with Google’s daughter. The eye exam it is simply anonymous data and the privacy risk is much lower.

Earlier this year, researchers knew of Deep Mind to beat the Go-master Lee Sedol with self-learning algorithm AlphaGo. Earlier it was thought that game for computers would still be far too complex to be able to win

By:. NU.nl