Images and data for Image and AI Tools Development

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  Development of Image Analysis and Artificial Intelligence Tools using eye Images and Data

• IRAS ID

  283818

• Contact name

  Daniela Narvaez

• Contact email

  moorfields.resadmin@nhs.net

• Sponsor organisation

  Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

• Duration of Study in the UK

  5 years, 0 months, 1 days

• Research summary

  Overview: Many of the causes of loss of vision are due to diseases that affect the inside of the eye and the retina, such as diabetes and age-related macular degeneration. It is important to be able to detect, classify and monitor these and other eye conditions effectively in order to reduce the risk of sight loss.
  Moorfields Eye Hospital is the sponsor of the research study, and will be working in partnership with Zeiss and University College London to collect images of the eye and retina from Zeiss and other machines at Moorfields Eye Hospital. The pictures collected will be combined with patient data (no identifying information will be shared) and will undergo analysis using computing techniques to develop tools and algorithms to help detect, classify and monitor eye conditions effectively with a longer-term goal to reduce the risk of sight loss for future patients.

  Image and Data Collection: the study will be divided into 2 datasets.
  Set 1 will involve collection of retrospective images and data collected in routine clinical care. We will not consent patients in set 1 as the images and data (datasets) will be linked and then fully anonymised, and images and data will be collected from routine clinics over the period of the study.

  Set 2 We will obtain the consent of participants to have their images and data both pre-existing and then collected at their usual clinic visits over the course of the 5 year study, we may request extra images. These images and data will be coded (pseudonymised) with a unique participant study ID number so that future images and data can be collected during the study.

  Analysis: the images and data collected will be used to develop tools and artificial intelligence (AI) to help detect, classify and monitor eye conditions effectively in order.

• REC name

  London - London Bridge Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  21/LO/0415

• Date of REC Opinion

  14 Jun 2021

• REC opinion

  Favourable Opinion