Bringing Artificial Intelligence and analytics to collect and analyse ocular problems across the world, IT major Microsoft has launched Microsoft Intelligent Network for Eyecare (MINI) with prominent eyecare institutes in different geographies as its partners.

The MINI will collect data from the network hospitals across the world and help them analyse the data to identify trends and patterns of diseases and their spread.

To start with, the MINI now has five partners — Brien Holden Vision Institute (Australia), Bascom Palmer (University of Miami, the US), Flaum Eye Institute (University of Rochester, the US), Federal University of Sao Paulo (Brazil) and LV Prasad Eye Institute (India).

The data would be kept open for stakeholders to access to find affordable solutions and see to it that they reach to interiors, GN Rao, Founder-Chair of LVPEI, has said.

Talking to reporters here after launching the network here, he said the data collected from different eyecare institutes would help them map the patients, the incidence and identify other parameters. “One of the use cases could be to map the patients and alert them about the follow-up treatments,” he said.

“We are already using Microsoft’s Azure Machine Learning and Power BI (business intelligence) to drive clinical interventions and improve results. We are expanding the scope of the association by brining in more partners to the platform,” he said.

Microsoft would host the data on its Azure cloud. “Our aim is to empower the institutes with machine learning and analytical tools,” Anil Bhansali, Managing Director of Microsoft India (R&D), said.

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