Zhongshan Ophthalmology released the world's first "digital mask", "consciousness of illness and not knowing people" anonymous medical treatment became a reality

Text/ Yangcheng Evening News all -media reporter Liu Xinyu

Correspondent 云 Mengyun Tang Yanli

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Don't want to be photographed when you see a doctor? Are you afraid of being recognized? "Digital Mask" can convert the image into a 3D form, remove your identity information, but also retain the characteristics of diagnosis.

On September 16, the reporter learned from the Zhongshan Ophthalmology Center of Sun Yat -sen University that the team of Professor Lin Haotian of the center and the team of Academician Dai Qionghai, Professor Xu Feng, and multiple scientific research institutions in Tsinghua University jointly developed a new technology "Digital Mask" (digital mask), and Through facial reconstruction, the patient's identity information can be retained at the same time to retain the characteristics of patient diagnosis, solving the contradiction between the personal sensitive information protection of patients and the diagnosis of disease -based diseases. The research results have been published online on the top international medical journal "Nature Medicine".

Separation of identity and disease information, "consciousness of illness" has become a reality

Professor Lin Haotian said that in terms of dialectics, through the cross -enhancement of digital technology and medical technology, the smart medical system of disease screening and prevention can be established to provide scientific and effective solutions for a series of key clinical issues.

However, the contradiction between the data dependence of digital medicine and the sensitivity of medical data is pain points and difficulty. Medical information always seems to follow the identity information, which leads to the coupling of personal disease signs and personal identity information. Anyone's face image While recording personal health information, it is inevitable to record other biological signs such as race, gender, age, and emotions.

Many patients are concerned about the leakage risk of personal sensitive information data. To some extent, these concerns also reduce the willingness of patients to provide research data, which has greatly increased the cost of data collection. Essence

Therefore, the protection of personal sensitive information of medical data is an urgent problem in the industry. Data collection related methods and procedures must be updated to protect people from being disclosed by information. The "DIGITAL MASK" (hereinafter referred to as DM) technology developed by its team converts the patient's face image into a 3D form, so that the patient's face can automatically generate a virtual "mask", which can only be used to diagnose important information about eye diseases. Realize the effect of "knowing diseases and not knowing people".

He pointed out that studies have shown that in the traditional six -choice identification test, if the "cover" method is used, the identification rate is 91.3%, and the patient's identification rate is reduced to 27.3%under the protection of DM.

DM "escort": The effects of these four clinical diagnosis of eye diseases are consistent

It is understood that the R & D team focuses on the four most common eye diseases, including upper eyelid drooping, eye tremor, strabismus, and thyroid -related orbital diseases, involving more than ten abnormal behavioral phenotyps, such as eyelid retraction, hyperthyroid eye, or hyperthyroidism or hyperthyroidism or hyperthyroidism or hyperthyroidism or hyperthyroidism or hyperthyroidism or hyperthyroidism or hyperthyroidism or hyperthyroidism or hyperthyroidism or hyperactivity of eyeballs or Insufficient, compensation header, etc.

Twelve experts and professors of the four specialists of Zhongshan Ophthalmology Center were diagnosed with disease diagnosis of patients using DM and unused DMs, and the results showed almost perfect diagnosis consistency and comparable diagnostic accuracy.

"The number of clinical patients involved in these four eye diseases is relatively large, and the signs and characteristics are relatively typical. They belong to common diseases and multiple onset. During the remote medical process, doctors will also pay more attention to the signs of such diseases during diagnosis. . With the change of technology and the increase in clinical testing, we will also cover more diseases. "Lin Hao added, such as thyroid -related orbital diseases, which used to use traditional ruler to measure the eyeballs, but now pass through DM's digital 3D technology can be measured directly and accurately. In addition to protecting the privacy of patients, DM also brings major breakthroughs to medical auxiliary diagnosis and monitoring.

Source | Yangcheng Evening News · Yangcheng School

Editor -in -law | Wang Moyi

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