There is quite a lot going on at Healthplus.ai currently. New team members joined the data scientists team over the last few months, and they are already speeding up the pace of development. One of the projects that benefits from this is A-eye, where we work closely together with Ksyos. There are various aspects worth mentioning about this collaboration, and instead of typing a lengthy post myself, I will point to the Master Thesis “A-eye: Implementation of AI in eye disease detection” of Ward de Leve.
In his Thesis that Ward wrote to conclude his studies of Integrated Product Design at TU Delft, he focus on designing a service around the AI system to make it fit the needs of the different medical specialists. So it describes the complete A-eye workflow, and the role AI is going to play in this process. In chapter 4. The algorithm, you’ll find more information about the type of algorithm that is going to be used to develop the eye screening algorithm, and how we are doing this. There is quite a bit of detail on the context and background, with a good explanation of the reason to use of a convolutional neural network (CNN) to recognise patterns in (eye) images.
The development of the model is work in progress: working in sprints, running multiple iterations, designing & training the model, evaluating the results, and then improving in a next cycle to further optimise the model. One and of the next steps is to integrate a working version of the model in the workflow, as described in chapter 5. Workflow. I’m not going to give away more details, really recommend to check out the thesis yourself for further reading pleasure.
So Ward, thanks for this thesis, makes writing this post a bit lazier easier, and of course congrats with your Master Graduation! Rest assured that we will use your ideas and recommendations to make the integration of the AI model in the workflow as user friendly and efficient as possible.
For those of you who want to know more about this project or other projects we are running at Healthplus.ai, feel free to contact me at emil.zegers@healthplus.ai