A2DS Provides AI Solutions to Asian Eye Institute's EyeScan Program

Since 2016, Asian Eye Institute of the has established and run a large scale eye screening program called EyeScan in order to provide a wider and eye care in Philippines. According to the Institute,

EyeScan is a pre-screening service to detect signs of sight-threatening eye problems like cataract, retinal diseases, glaucoma and cornea and external diseases.

A trained technician takes digital images of the front and back parts of the eye using a screening device. The images are then uploaded and read by certified ophthalmic image readers. Patients will receive a report that shows the images of the eyes, findings and recommendation on whether they need further evaluation by an eye specialist.

For 4 years in service, EyeScan has provided eye screening for thousands of patients, creating significant improvement of eye care in the local areas. In the beginning of 2020, A2DS is partnering with AEI to provide mass eye screening with higher speed and accuracy thanks to new AI tool.

Due to the large volume of images needed to be read and processed everyday, there is a huge need for a cognitive tool that can assist readers with their daily workload. A2DS provided EyeScan such a system. We offer a comprehensive IT platformed enhanced with AI applications that allow faster and more accurate reading.

The AI-enhanced IT platform comes with the following features:

• Interface for staffs at EyeScan clinic to input and upload patient’s profile to a central database
• IOT module to
  - automatically upload fundus images taken by Forus camera to database
  - match and combine into patient’s profile

• Interface for readers to
  - read patient’s profile being sent from EyeScan clinic
  - save diagnosis results
  - send email to or export the result for patients

• AI module to
  - read retinal findings from fundus images
  - read findings from anterior images
  

• Interface that list out diagnosis made by readers and AI
• Dashboard to:
  - keep track of performance of different clinics (Amount of patients coming to the clinics by time)
  - keep track of performance of readers (Number of diagnosis made by each readers by time, alert if one patient’s record has been diagnosed for so long)

It is hoped that with the new IT platform, the EyeScan will reach a new level and continue to provide great services to the local communities, especially ones in the rural areas which have limited access to high-quality eye care.