Autonomous Medical Operations (AMO)

The AMO Project developed a prototype for an on-board software system that would provide medical augmented intelligence for both planned and emergent clinical care aboard deep space exploration missions. The technology aims to mitigate medical misdiagnosis incidence, particularly when crewmembers operate outside their specialty training, as well as to guide and assist during clinical procedures. To accomplish this, the AMO Project developed a set of computer medical analysis tools that can augment the clinician’s ability to provide quality astronaut healthcare. The tools are packaged as a modular pipeline that prepares patient organ images (ultrasound and fundoscopic) and video clips for automated interpretation of diagnostic signs that likely indicate pathology. The system supports computer-aided image feature detection, and record content analysis for providing diagnostic advice.