ESCRS 2023: New artificial intelligence integrations are ahead for iCare

News
Video

The diagnostics company is using AI to screen for diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma and age-related macular degeneration

Artificial intelligence (AI) was a popular topic at this year’s European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS) meeting. At the meeting, our team stopped by the iCare booth to see how AI is improving diagnostic speed and accuracy, for patients of all ages.


Editor's note: The below transcript has been lightly edited for clarity.

Kasperi Kankare: I'm Kasperi Kankare. I'm a key account manager at iCare Finland.

iCare has brought to the ESCRS this year 3 fantastic and unique solutions. We brought something new to glaucoma, we have brought the new iCare IC200, which is faster than ever and with its new quick measurement mode, it also enables measuring paediatric patients, from infants to the grownups, in a 200-degree angle, a complete freedom. Also we have iCare home, which enables the patient to do a home tonometry, which then can deliver the true intraocular pressure value to ophthalmologists and caregivers. And most importantly for glaucoma, we have now brought the new COMPASS. It delivers [an] absolutely fantastic visual field examination within just 4 minutes without [a] trial lens. I would enable the combined COMPASS with the iCare home. Because how you can treat glaucoma without knowing the true intraocular pressure of the patient?

On retina, iCare has always been leading a retina camera manufacturer. Our proprietary true color technology delivers a clear, high contrast image. The iCare ILLUME is the perfect marriage of our DRSplus fully-automatic retinal imaging solution, combined with a cloud service and artificial intelligence, which enables a caregiver to do a patient screening for 3 pathologies: diabetic retinopathy, AMD and glaucoma. Within a time period of 3 minutes from the imaging to the AI report. We have a lot of new interesting things upcoming. What I personally am awaiting most is to work with the artificial intelligence in ILLUME, because that is truly game-changing in our field.


Newsletter

Join ophthalmologists across Europe—sign up for exclusive updates and innovations in surgical techniques and clinical care.

Recent Videos
Christine Curcio, PhD, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine, shares histology update and revised nomenclature for OCT with Sheryl Stevenson of the Eye Care Network and Ophthalmology Times
SriniVas R. Sadda, MD, FARVO, shares key points from his retina presentation at the International SPECTRALIS Symposium
Robert Sergott, MD, describes fluorescence lifetime imaging ophthalmoscopy (FLIO) and the International SPECTRALIS Symposium – And Beyond (ISS) in Heidelberg, Germany.
Rayaz Malik, MBChB, PhD, a professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine - Qatar, spoke with Ophthalmology Times Europe about his presentation. It's titled "An eye on neurodegenerative diseases: Challenging the dogma" at the International SPECTRALIS Sympsoium. In conversation with Hattie Hayes, Ophthalmology Times Europe
Anat Loewenstein, MD, describes her presentation on remote imaging for age-related macular degeneration and geographic atrophy at the International SPECTRALIS Symposium, in conversation with Hattie Hayes of Ophthalmology Times Europe
Tyson Brunstetter, OD, PhD, a US Navy Aerospace Optometrist at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, shares key takeaways from his keynote at the International SPECTRALIS Symposium (ISS)
Rayaz Malik, MBChB, PhD, shares his presentation, titled An eye on neurodegenerative diseases: Challenging the dogma, at this year's International SPECTRALIS Symposium
At the Retina World Congress, Siegfried Priglinger, MD, speaks about ensuring the best outcomes for preschool-aged patients
At the 2025 ASCRS meeting, Robert Ang, MD said small aperture IOLs can benefit all patients, especially those with complex corneas or who have undergone previous corneal refractive surgery
Viha Vig, MBChB graduate student at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, discusses her poster presentation on the relationship between mitochondiral disease, Alzheimer disease, and other types of dementia.
Related Content
© 2025 MJH Life Sciences

All rights reserved.