Optrafair 20/20 set for AI update

Pearse Keane has been announced as the keynote speaker for Optrafair’s inaugural Optrafair Lecture.

As the lead for research being carried out at Moorfields into the benefits of integrating artificial intelligence (AI) technology into eye care, Keane will update delegates on its progress before highlighting the advantages that AI could bring to diagnosis and treatment of sight-threatening diseases.

In 2016, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust announced a five-year partnership with leading British tech company DeepMind. A research breakthrough was later reached when over a million anonymised retinal scans were analysed by an AI program; over 50 eye diseases can now be correctly referred via the AI with 94% accuracy.