Computer Vision News - May 2020

2 Summary The Lab of the Month 16 A field that is already making waves in that space is gastroenterology . There are several systems that are either on the market or emerging which are using AI to do computer-assisted diagnosis and potentially computer-assisted therapeutics and therapies. Most of the big endoscope providers, like Olympus, Fuji and Pentax , have announced AI- powered systems. As have medical device companies like Medtronic , and a number of spinout companies, including one at UCL called Odin Vision , which is part of the WEISS Centre combining engineering and clinical expertise at UCL and UCLH. WEISS is a large multidisciplinary centre, where engineers, clinicians and computer scientists work together. Its focus is on translating innovation in engineering into improving surgical and interventional practice, and on how innovation in surgery and interventions can interface to what is happening in engineering. As an engineer, Dan says understanding the clinical reality is critical to steer solutions. “When you’re in the operating room, you can see what the problems are, and you can potentially come up with solutions. And you can see how the things that you thought were solutions are maybe not solutions, or they’re solutions to a problem that is not actually a problem. It’s also important for surgeons to understand what the technical capabilities are. It’s very easy to believe that things are ready that are not ready, or to just not be aware of what technology is available today. In the AI era, that has been quite a common misconception.” But what about the time before the