Digital Health
Our Mission
To create high quality open access datasets for research in cataract, refractive and corneal surgery. We will do this through the ESCRS Digital Research Awards program and digital health symposia at ESCRS annual congress meetings.
Who are we?
Our terms of reference
Find out more about the Digital Health Special Interest Group’s objectives, responsibilities and structure.
GDPR
ESCRS has reviewed GDPR law to help you get involved in data research. In most EU Countries, you do not need ethical approval or consent to analyse anonymised healthcare data collected in the course of routine clinical care.
Public Datasets
We support the FAIR principles of healthcare data collection. Healthcare data should be Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable. Powerful new analytic tools are becoming widely accessible, helping all of us to look at old healthcare data in new ways. Magda and the team have created a library of links to publicly available image datasets relevant to cataract, cornea, and refractive surgery to help you get involved
Recent Symposia
Find out more about deep learning - a pattern recognition superpower - from a panel of leading international speakers at our Clinical Research Symposium “Bringing Deep Learning to the Anterior Segment”
Watch back recent symposia
Deep Learning: a pattern recognition superpower
Foundation models and transfer learning: more power from less data
DICOM for beginners: what it is and why it matters
Federated learning: big data from smaller datasets
Deep learning in keratoconus
Deep learning in corneal infection
Current Projects
Watch the video summaries of our most recent project work.
The OCT-KC research project
The OCT-KC research project aims to enhance the early detection and monitoring of keratoconus by improving scan quality, creating an open-access database of eye scans for other researchers, and developing artificial intelligence analysis tools. This research will help eye care professionals to identify and track keratoconus more effectively, ultimately leading to better patient outcomes.
Transforming Keratoconus Care: The European Outcomes Registry Project
Dr. Joao Gil, a cornea surgeon and researcher in Coimbra, Portugal, introduces the European Outcomes Keratoconus Registry Project (EUKOR). This initiative, supported by the ESCRS Digital Research Award, aims to revolutionize keratoconus care through a pan-European registry. By standardising and automating data collection from advanced imaging devices, the project seeks to enhance early diagnosis, monitor disease progression, and personalise treatments. Watch the video to discover how this collaborative effort is set to transform keratoconus management and improve patient outcomes across Europe.