Imagine that we would be able to assess how healthy the frontal lobes of our eyes are, not only in hospitals, but also in remote eye-check-up camps, elderly-care facilities, pharmacies, or even train stations. This is the future, a research team led by Professor Toru Nakazawa at Tohoku University’s Graduate School of Medicine is working with a newly developed portable AI-powered scanning slit-light device. This convenient tool hopes to make ophthalmic care more accessible, so that patients can be evaluated in any place and at any time. The findings have been published in Scientific Reports.

