My Work In Eye Research [i Dont Just Do Computing]

Hey all

Some may know while I have dealt with computing and imaging tech for many years, having also been a Microsoft MVP in Windows for 7yrs my main work has been for 13yrs+ in opthalmology and eye research in mainly ARMD, Diabetes, Vein Occlusions, Malarial Retinophathy to name some, massivily at present in AI and big data in automated diagnosis at present, BUT

I have a few current co-authored papers out on a type of nAMD (ARMD, wet AMD) in this 1st one of previlence in caucasion population as its was thought not as common https://bjo.bmj.com/content/early/2017/03/07/bjophthalmol-2016-310074

And this on treatement types of the above sample over a few yrs https://www.nature.com/articles/s41433-018-0168-2

Geeky non tech me sorry! )

 

I know hard going but if anyone is NUTS enough to want to read full papers and research I can supply the full papers, just let me know.
Some other works as mostly AI diagnostics in various eye conditions https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Parry11

 

Just back from a few days in London (OMG it was HOT, thought I was in satans lair), luckily conference room had aircon.

Great talks on how AI and likes of DeepMind, Big Data can likely help initail screening/diagnosis and many are getting good results at present in testing, one thing while I likely would trust the medical findings of a computer in eye disease, would you as a patient like to be told your diagnosis by a PC or buy a human doctor/medic? I just dont thing we are at a point people would trust a AI (computer) diagnosis.


Cheers Gensu

 

Yes like Gensu I would rely on someone who is more specalist on the Ophthalmology side.

Some papers I was reading, not my area so hard to judge the validity, but worth a read.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5628702/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3196333/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1567724917300120
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/omcl/2017/7180632/abs/

I did speak to one of our specialists last week, just had a manic weekend, with relative taken into hospital and folk don’t drive these days, so sorry not got back to you earlier, she said at times the optic nerve fibers can recover, times beta interferon is used but guess that’s more for MS if diagnosed. She did also mention she was reading about some new trials, but cannot remember the names of them or authors, which had me looking through the above. Did think I emailed you but I may have off a different email address so could have gone into spam.

Thats the crux of the meeting we had is AI/BigData, while promising can you trust a PC to diagnose a scan over a human, yet! some factors in human interpritation are we can rule out artefacts in the scans to name one, but its also training a AI neural net to be able to look at some features of a contition, then sift through to know differentals and what is likely diagnosis. Alot of basic easier scans have had great results, from thickness retina to cup to disc measurements. Aways to go but upshot is I cannot retire yet, as AI in colaboration with human experts, we likely can train computers to do the diagnostics quicker in some conditions but not all.

 

https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2018/02/researchers-combine-metalens-with-artificial-muscle

 

Eldon and Pete's wife hope you both get well soon.