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Google launches AI screening for eye disease in Thailand
- Friday | 14th December, 2018
The eye screening programme in Thailand follows a similar Google programme in India and highlights a push by big tech companies to show the social benefits of new AI technologies. BANGKOK (Reuters) – Google said on Thursday it had launched an artificial intelligence program in Thailand to screen for a diabetic eye disease which causes permanent blindness. The Thai government has been campaigning against behaviour that can lead to diabetes and has made the diabetic eye screening one of the country’s national health indicators since 2015. Paisan said the programme is intended to achieve a nationwide eye screening rate of 60 percent, which is also the Thai government’s target. This followed a joint-study which found the AI programme to have an accuracy rate of 95 percent when it comes to disease detection, compared with 74 percent from opticians or eye doctors.
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