{"id":208505,"date":"2026-01-31T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/31\/igs-2026-the-expanding-role-of-artificial-intelligence-in-ophthalmology\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T09:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T14:50:07","slug":"igs-2026-the-expanding-role-of-artificial-intelligence-in-ophthalmology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/31\/igs-2026-the-expanding-role-of-artificial-intelligence-in-ophthalmology\/","title":{"rendered":"IGS 2026: The expanding role of artificial intelligence in ophthalmology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/europe.ophthalmologytimes.com\/view\/igs-2026-the-expanding-role-of-artificial-intelligence-in-ophthalmology\">IGS 2026: The expanding role of artificial intelligence in ophthalmology<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/europe.ophthalmologytimes.com\/view\/igs-2026-the-expanding-role-of-artificial-intelligence-in-ophthalmology\">https:\/\/europe.ophthalmologytimes.com\/view\/igs-2026-the-expanding-role-of-artificial-intelligence-in-ophthalmology<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-31 09:10:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"europe.ophthalmologytimes.com\">europe.ophthalmologytimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Artificial intelligence (AI) was featured prominently at the 2nd International Glaucoma Symposium on 31 January 2026 in Mainz, Germany, where Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Jan H. Terheyden, FEBO, spoke on how AI is already supporting ophthalmologists in everyday clinical care. The Eye Care Network caught up with Terheyden to learn more about which applications are delivering the greatest impact today, the hurdles to broader adoption, and how AI may evolve over the next decade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Note: Transcript edited for clarity and length.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Priv.-Doz.\u00a0Dr. med. Jan H. Terheyden, FEBO:<\/strong>The greatest impact is coming from AI applied to retinal imaging, particularly for diabetic retinopathy and other retinal diseases, where algorithms are approaching or matching expert performance and can be deployed at scale. From a research standpoint, these applications succeed because they leverage large, standardised imaging datasets and address clear clinical bottlenecks in screening and triage. In parallel, AI tools that support medical workflows, such as ambient clinical scribes and automated documentation tools, are beginning to have a meaningful impact by reducing administrative burden and allowing ophthalmologists to focus more on patient care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Terheyden:<\/strong> A key challenge is translating strong algorithmic performance into real clinical value\u2014integrating AI seamlessly into workflows without adding cognitive or time burden. From my perspective, issues around generalisability, explainability, and trust are central, especially when models are trained on curated datasets that may not reflect real-world populations or imaging variability.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Terheyden:<\/strong> AI can improve efficiency by automating repetitive tasks like image quality control, segmentation, and risk stratification, allowing clinicians to focus on complex decision-making. I see particular promise in combining longitudinal data and multimodal inputs\u2014such as imaging with clinical or functional data\u2014to improve early detection and disease progression&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/europe.ophthalmologytimes.com\/view\/igs-2026-the-expanding-role-of-artificial-intelligence-in-ophthalmology\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IGS 2026: The expanding role of artificial intelligence in ophthalmology https:\/\/europe.ophthalmologytimes.com\/view\/igs-2026-the-expanding-role-of-artificial-intelligence-in-ophthalmology Publish Date: 2026-01-31 09:10:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":208506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.sanity.io\/images\/0vv8moc6\/ophtimeeurope\/05e3ebc4b11fa7cb31f1ba077d8ddce9459fd655-1200x800.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208507,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208505\/revisions\/208507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}