The Odesa Filatov Institute is developing the use of AI for diagnosing eye diseases

The V. P. Filatov Institute of Eye Diseases and Tissue Therapy of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine will continue to develop technologies for using artificial intelligence (AI) in diagnosing eye diseases, said Andrii Korol, head of the department for the study of the biological action and application of lasers in ophthalmology at the clinic.

“We have now worked out diabetic retinopathy, and at the next stage we will develop in several directions. These could be specific eye diseases, retinal diseases, glaucoma, age-related degeneration, or other diseases that are manifestations of diabetes mellitus,” he said in an interview with the agency Interfax-Ukraine.

Korol noted that another direction for developing AI technologies that the institute plans to pursue will be a system that makes it possible to “see symptoms and signs of various diseases, for example hypertension, vascular changes, hereditary diseases, and a number of rare diseases.”

Korol clarified that the institute will be able to “launch research on new nosologies every year and a half.”