21 October 2024
Eye care specialists could see Artificial Intelligence (AI) help in diagnosing infectious keratitis, a leading cause of corneal blindness worldwide, as a new study finds that deep learning models showed similar levels of accuracy in identifying infection.
In a meta-analysis study published in eClinicalMedicine, Dr Darren Ting from the University of Birmingham conducted and led a review with a global team of researchers analysing 35 studies that utilised Deep Learning (DL) models to diagnose infectious keratitis.
AI models in the study matched the diagnostic accuracy of ophthalmologists, exhibiting a sensitivity of 89.2% and specificity of 93.2%, compared to ophthalmologists' 82.2% sensitivity and 89.6% specificity.
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18 September 2024
Artificial intelligence (AI) and non-antibiotic therapeutic approaches could play a role in tackling antimicrobial resistance according to new research.
Dr Darren Ting, BHP Clinician Scientist Fellow from the School of Infection, Inflammation and Immunology, University of Birmingham, and Honorary Consultant Ophthalmologist at Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre (BMEC), has recently led an international team of experts to review the state of play in the field of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and looked specifically at the emerging non-antibiotic therapeutic approaches and the potential role of AI in tackling AMR.
This work was produced in collaboration with authors from several world-leading institutes, including University of Cambridge, University of Pennsylvania, University of British Columbia, National Laboratory of Biotechnology (Hungary), Duke-NUS, and Singapore Eye Research Institute (SERI).
The review, published in Lancet Microbe this week, highlights the problem of evolving AMR, with 5 million deaths associated with bacterial AMR in 2019. Beyond high mortality rates, AMR also results in high morbidity, prolonged hospital admission and increased health-care costs.
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