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Google Partners with Forus Health and AuroLab to Combat Preventable Blindness in Diabetic Patients

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Sustainability, Forus Health, CircularNet, Deployment

Business Honor
18 October, 2024

Google collaborates with Indian firms to enhance healthcare, sustainability, and agriculture through AI technology

Google has licensed its AI model to Forus Health and AuroLab in India to help detect preventable blindness at early stages among diabetic patients. The initiative aims to facilitate 6 million free AI screenings for diabetic retinopathy occur within the next ten years, targeting underserved populations in India and Thailand. Sunny Virmani, group product manager for Health AI Research at Google, emphasized that Partners will take it forward, handle the deployment, and get all the required regulatory clearances to scale this program.

The AI model has already helped screen more than 600,000 people across the world; its potential can be assessed. Apart from health, Google is working towards sustainability through its CircularNet model, which identifies the type of waste with 85% accuracy and Saahas Zero Waste demonstrated in Bengaluru.

Google is also opening its Agricultural Landscape Understanding (ALU) Research API in the agricultural sector with satellite imaging for improving productivity against climate change. "It reflects our commitment to the agricultural sector in India," said Google engineering lead at Google DeepMind India.

Project Vaani at Google DeepMind will construct a balanced AI landscape by bringing in speech data in 125 Indian languages and dialects. Already partnered with the Indian Institute of Science and Artpark, this project has already gathered over 14,000 hours of data and is looking forward to reaching all across the 773 districts of India.