I-SCREEN is a project being supported by researchers at Queen’s University Belfast which aims to revolutionise the care of Age Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) by developing an artificial intelligence (AI) programme to identify and monitor the early stages of AMD through equipment found in High Street Opticians. 

Dr Ruth Hogg from the Centre for Public Health at Queen’s University Belfast who is leading the project joins RNIB Connect Radio’s Toby Davey to explain more about I-SCREEN. 

Dr Ruth Hogg alongside researchers from Northern Ireland Clinical Research facility will begin by recruiting patients with intermediate AMD, who they will follow for two years in order to identify the earliest stage of transition to late AMD. 

 

This data will then be used to help refine AI models that could be used in the community by High Street optometrists.

The I-SCREEN project has been established through the collaboration of a multidisciplinary network of clinical retina experts, computer scientists, community-based optometrists, and business specialists experienced in clinical decision support systems for ophthalmology.

More about I-SCREEN can be found on the project’s website - https://i-screen.eu

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