OpenAI's Sora in ophthalmology: revolutionary generative AI in eye health

Ethan Waisberg¹, Joshua Ong², Mouayad Masalkhi³, Andrew G Lee^{4

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Ophthalmology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. ew690@cam.ac.uk.
² Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Michigan Kellogg Eye Center, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
³ School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
⁴ Department of Ophthalmology, Blanton Eye Institute, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.
⁵ The Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.
⁶ Departments of Ophthalmology, Neurology, and Neurosurgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
⁷ Department of Ophthalmology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA.
⁸ University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
⁹ Texas A&M College of Medicine, Bryan, TX, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Ophthalmology, The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA, USA.

Ethan Waisberg et al. Eye (Lond). 2024 Sep.

. 2024 Sep;38(13):2502-2503.

doi: 10.1038/s41433-024-03098-x. Epub 2024 Apr 30.

Ethan Waisberg¹, Joshua Ong², Mouayad Masalkhi³, Andrew G Lee^{4

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¹ Department of Ophthalmology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. ew690@cam.ac.uk.
² Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Michigan Kellogg Eye Center, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
³ School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
⁴ Department of Ophthalmology, Blanton Eye Institute, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.
⁵ The Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.
⁶ Departments of Ophthalmology, Neurology, and Neurosurgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
⁷ Department of Ophthalmology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA.
⁸ University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
⁹ Texas A&M College of Medicine, Bryan, TX, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Ophthalmology, The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA, USA.

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Conflict of interest statement

AGL is a member of the Eye editorial board. The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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