Automatic Retinal Image Analysis (ARIA)

Overview

Automatic Retinal Image Analysis (ARIA) is a patented artificial intelligence (AI) technology and deep learning method assessing an individual’s health risk levels by their retinal images taken by a fundus camera.

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Technical name of innovation
Automatic Retinal Image Analysis (ARIA)
Research completion
Ongoing
Commercialisation opportunities
Exclusive licensing for new products; Joint venture opportunities in new sectors
Problem addressed

Chronic diseases, such as stroke and cognitive impairment, generate a huge global medical burden and lower the quality of life of patients. Many chronic diseases are better to prevent than cure; however, screening modalities to identify high-risk subjects are often limited. Even if some exist, their accuracies are not high and can be expensive, therefore not readily accessible by the public.

Innovation
  • Using a single pair of retinal images, ARIA can simultaneously assess the risk of a range of diseases such as stroke risk and cognitive impairment.
  • It promote the concept of disease prevention.
Key impact
  • Very accurate with accuracies of over 90%
  • Non-invasive and no side effects
  • Fully automatic, therefore not affected by the operator’s subjective judgment
  • No specialist required
Award
  • Chinese YMCA of Hong Kong (YMCA) 2023 - "Y-Care CSR Scheme & Sport-Friendly Action Award" and "Y-Care Outstanding Performance (Social) Award"
  • 2023 BUSINESS GOVirtual Tech Awards - EXCELLENCE Award - TECH COMPANY OF THE YEAR (A.I. Application)
  • Hong Kong Commercial Times Business Awards 2023 - 年度最傑出全自動視網膜圖像分析服務
  • "Outstanding Social Capital Project Awards 2020" by the Labour and Welfare Bureau, Hong Kong SAR
  • "Social Capital Builder Logo Award 2020" by the Labour and Welfare Bureau, Hong Kong SAR
  • "Innovation and Entrepreneurship Awards 2019" by The China Association of Inventions
  • "The Most Valuable Service Awards in Hong Kong 2019 – Most Innovative Chronic Disease Prevention Technology Award" by Mediazone Group
  • Hong Kong Smart City Awards 2018 - Outstanding Assessment of Health Data Analysis Program
Application
  • Automatic Retinal Image Analysis for Stroke Risk
  • Automatic Retinal Image Analysis for estimated White Matter Hyperintensities (eWMH)

Patent

  • Method and device for retinal image analysis: US (US8787638B2), CN (CN103458772B), TW (TWI578977B)
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

Founded in 1963, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is a forward-looking comprehensive research university with a global vision and a mission to combine tradition with modernity, and to bring together China and the West. CUHK teachers and students hail from all around the world. Four Nobel laureates are associated with the university, and it is the only tertiary institution in Hong Kong with recipients of the Nobel Prize, Turing Award, Fields Medal and Veblen Prize sitting as faculty in residence. CUHK graduates are connected worldwide through an extensive alumni network. CUHK undertakes a wide range of research programmes in many subject areas, and strives to provide scope for all academic staff to undertake consultancy and collaborative projects with industry. 

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