Case Study: Moorfields Eye Hospital accelerates AI research with Softwire's cloud data platform

Moorfields Eye Hospital turns 20 million images into an AI-ready cloud platform with Softwire

Moorfields Eye Hospital faced a significant challenge in advancing its AI research due to its vast but fragmented data. With twenty million ophthalmic images stored across forty different systems, and 50,000 new scans added weekly, producing a clean, usable dataset was a laborious manual process that could take up to nine months. This hampered groundbreaking research efforts. Softwire was engaged to address this.

Softwire built a bespoke cloud-based data platform that automatically ingests and transforms new images into standardized, AI-ready formats separated from patient-identifiable data. This solution, designed with stringent information governance at its heart, enabled researchers to identify study cohorts and receive tailored datasets in days instead of months. This has directly led to the publication of breakthrough findings and allows for studies on a scale of hundreds of thousands or even millions of patients, which was not previously possible.

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