Artificial intelligence technology may be more accurate than doctors in organ transplants

A group of British researchers is developing a new technology that works with artificial intelligence that can be more accurate than doctors in organ transplants, as it selects the organs that are donated with great perfection.
According to the British newspaper “The Independent”, the National Institute for Health and Care Research in Britain has allocated one million pounds sterling to fund a project to develop this technology, with the aim of increasing the number of organs available for transplantation.
Currently, surgeons examine donor organs and use their own judgment to assess whether they are of good enough quality to be suitable for transplantation in patients.
But the new technology uses artificial intelligence and its “memory” of tens of thousands of available images of organs to determine which ones offer the best chance of a successful transplant.

The team behind the new technology, known as OrQA (Organ Quality Assessment), claim it could lead to kidney transplants for up to 200 more patients and liver transplants for about 100 more patients per year in the UK.
Professor Hassan Aqeel, Director of the Center for Visual Computing at the University of Bradford, who is involved in developing the technology, said: “Currently, when an organ is available for transplantation, it is evaluated by a surgical team visually, which causes a lot of errors in identifying suitable organs for transplantation.” .
He added, “We are developing a deep machine learning algorithm that is trained using thousands of images of human organs to evaluate and select the organs that can be transplanted very accurately.”
“This ultimately means that the surgeon can take a picture of the donated organ, upload it to the new OrQA system and get an immediate answer about the possibility of transplantation for a patient,” he continued.
The team pointed out that this is a very important step for professionals and patients to make sure that people get the transplant they need as quickly as possible.