Pearse Keane

About Pearse Keane

Professor of Artificial Medical Intelligence, University College London; Consultant Ophthalmologist, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

What industry trends are catching your attention right now?

I’m excited about the potential of “vision-language” foundation models. These models will be trained on huge amounts of text and ophthalmic images, improving performance in classical medical imaging tasks, along with a range of new novel possibilities – such as semantic search and visual question answering. 

If you weren’t an ophthalmologist, what would you be doing instead?

I would love to be a film director!

How do you think AI and machine learning will impact ophthalmology?

AI will provide world leading expertise outside of specialized centers, into the communities and homes of our patients.