Prominent UK ophthalmologist Professor Pearse Keane – considered a global leader in ophthalmic artificial intelligence (AI) advances – will headline AI in Eye Care (including Indigenous perspectives), a two-day conference in Broome, WA, immediately after the 2023 RANZCO Congress.
The event will run Tuesday 24 and Wednesday 25 October 2023 at the Cable Beach Resort, and feature global experts presenting from the UK, US, India and Australia.
The conference, organised by Lions Outback Vision founder and director Professor Angus Turner, is for ophthalmologists, optometrists and orthoptists. However, a session on one morning will be open to non-eyecare professionals, such as Kimberley primary care, GPs, Aboriginal health workers.
Attendees can expect engaging discussion with Aboriginal healthcare leaders regarding the ethics of AI research.
AI in Eye Care organisers will hold a workshop on the final morning to generate a consensus involving the visiting experts and will examine the principles and ethical implications of deploying of AI diagnostic tools, including:
- Safety and quality of care provided to patients
- Patient data privacy and protection
- Appropriate application of medical ethics
- Equity of access and equity of outcomes through elimination of bias
- Transparency in how algorithms used by AI tools are developed and applied
- That the final decision on treatment should always rest with the patient and the medical professional, while at the same time recognising the instances where responsibility will have to be shared between the AI (manufacturers), the medical professionals and service providers (hospitals or medical practices).
“With support from Cable Beach Resort and Kerry and Christine Stokes the host ‘country town’ is looking forward to impressing the visitors even though it’s starting to warm up,” Turner said.
“Registration is free and subsidised accommodation thanks to our sponsors Roche, Bayer, Apellis, Topcon, Zeiss, the Fred Hollows Foundation.”
Key speakers
Prof Pearse Keane – consultant ophthalmologist at Moorfields Eye Hospital and an associate professor at UCL Institute of Ophthalmology. In 2016, he initiated a formal collaboration between Moorfields Eye Hospital and Google DeepMind, to develop AI algorithms for the earlier detection of retinal disease. In October 2019, he was included on the Evening Standard Progress1000 list of most influential Londoners. In 2020, he was listed on the “The Power List” by The Ophthalmologist magazine.
Prof Robyn Guymer – Centre for Eye Research Australia (CERA)’s deputy hirector, head of macular research, and a medical retina specialist running many trials and innovations in home-monitoring space.
Mr Rory Pigram – part of the Google HealthAI team in California since 2018. He focuses on transforming machine learning research into AI-based products that have impact in the real world. The products he manages span across improving detection of eye-related diseases from ocular images, and the detection of active pulmonary tuberculosis from chest radiographs.
Dr Mark Chia – PhD candidate University College London and ophthalmology trainee-to-be in Melbourne, with research spanning Indigenous eye health prevalence, AI diagnostic validation for Aboriginal Australians and novel biomarkers in multimodal ocular imaging including OCT-A.
Dr Xavier Hadoux – CERA, Melbourne, and chief technology officer at Enlighten Imaging. He has applied his engineering, physics and data science knowledge to medical device development and detection of novel biomarkers for eye and brain disease.
Prof Angus Turner – director of Lions Outback Vision. He will describe the real world use of AI diagnostic applications and augmentation of current collaborative care telehealth.
More information and registration can be found here.
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