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Artificial intelligence being used to help with organ donation.
A new method to assess the quality of organs for donation is set to revolutionize the transplant system – and it could help save hundreds of lives and tens of millions of dollars.
A new technology called Organ Quality Assessment (OrQA) is being developed to assess the quality of organs for donation using AI-based facial recognition.
The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) is contributing more than $1 million in funding to develop this technology.
OrQA could result in up to 200 more patients receiving kidney transplants and 100 more receiving liver transplants a year in the UK.
The software developed will evaluate the quality of the organ and support surgeons to assess if the organ is healthy enough to be transplanted, resulting in more patients receiving life-saving transplants and leading healthier, longer lives.
The technology will use thousands of images of human organs to assess images of donor organs more effectively.
The project is supported by NHS Blood and Transplant, Quality in Organ Donation biobank, and an NIHR Blood and Transplant Research Unit, and involves academics from the Universities of Oxford and New South Wales.
It is hoped the OrQA software will be ready for a licensing study within the NHS within two years.
Proof of concept work has been carried out in liver, kidney and pancreas transplantation, and OrQA is at an advanced stage of pre-clinical testing in liver and kidney.
