AISIG Meetup: AI in Medical Diagnosis and Patient Care
This AISIG Meet-up will explore WA Artificial Intelligence and Data Science research and its clinical application to medical diagnosis and patient treatment.
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About this event
This AISIG Meet-up will explore WA Artificial Intelligence and Data Science research and its clinical application to medical diagnosis and patient treatment.
Real word examples will be used to demonstrate how predictive analytics, data science, and deep learning networks are pushing boundaries and improving outcomes and care of patients in Western Australia.
This session will provide a high-level overview of these technologies, and explore their use in real clinical practice, while being mindful of confidentiality, and privacy of sensitive personal information.
You’ll learn from leading AI medical practitioners and researchers:
- Shiv Akarsh Meka - Overview of Data Science at Royal Perth Hospital, and how predictive algorithms improve health outcomes for patients
- Professor Yogi Yogesan – Reimagining Healthcare with AI: Eye Disease Detection & Hospital at Home Solutions
- Dr Thomas Drake-Brockman (they/them) – Applying MERLIN HPC to sensitive health data at Perth Children’s Hospital, and integrating with the Setonix HPE Cray EX Supercomputer and the Nimbus research cloud service at the Pawsey Supercomputer Centre
- Dr Yuliya Karpievitch – The use of AI and bacteriophages to solve the antimicrobial resistance crisis
Presentations will be followed by an interactive panel forum moderated by Jerome Chiew, Chair, ACS WA Branch Executive Committee.
LUCKY DRAW PRIZE
Participants attending this event will go into a lucky draw to win a free ticket to attend the Digital Health and Telemedicine Symposium to be held 2 July 2025 in Perth, and hosted by the Indo-Asia Digital Health Center, the City of Perth, and Notre Dame Australian University.
To be eligible for the lucky door prize, full attendance throughout the entire webinar is required. Participation will be automatically recorded by our events team.
PLEASE NOTE:
See below for event start times in different Australian time zones -
- AWST (Perth) – 6:00pm
- ACST (Adelaide, Darwin) – 7:30pm
- AEST (Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Hobart) – 8:00pm
** If you are not a current ACS member, you will be asked to 'create an account'. Your details will be used for registration processes only. If you experience technical issues, please contact the WA Branch by e-mail acs.wa@acs.org.au
ABOUT AISIG
The AISIG is a special initiative of the ACS WA Branch, holding periodic Meet-ups that are focused on topics in Artificial Intelligence (AI) for ACS members who are AI researchers, developers, users, or those with a keen interest to learn more. All ACS members are welcome to attend.
More information about AISIG is available here -
[https://membership.acs.org.au/member-insight/20240620-WA-AI-SIG.html]
Speakers
Visiting Scholar, Harvard Medical School
Professor Yogesan is a world-renowned leader in ophthalmology, digital health, and telemedicine. He has pioneered digital eye care globally and is the author of foundational books in digital eye care and teleophthalmology published by Springer Verlag. He led groundbreaking research in developing an eye test for the early detection of Alzheimer’s disease, creating a field that is now being pursued worldwide. His AI-based diagnostic systems for eye diseases are currently used across Australia, Singapore, the Middle East and other countries. Through partnerships with Aravind Eye Hospital and Aurolab in India, he helped deliver scalable, low-cost AI screening tools for diabetic retinopathy and other conditions. These systems have supported population-level eye screening across vast networks, leveraging over 8.5 million annual patient visits and transforming access to care in resource-limited settings.
A former Senior Fulbright Scholar at Stanford University and a prolific inventor with over 35 patent applications, Professor Yogesan has received multiple national awards for innovation, including WA Inventor of the Year and Achiever of the Year. He was also a Western Australian finalist for Australian of the Year for his contribution to medical innovation and global eye care.
Honorary Research Associate, The Kids Research Institute Australia
Dr Drake-Brockman (they/them) is a clinician-academic and technologist, working at the intersection of medicine and computing. They are a rural doctor and software engineer, and a key contributor to MERLIN, a transformative high-performance computing (HPC) system for child health research at Perth Children’s Hospital. Thomas brings together deep experience across clinical care, technology and research translation, research software engineering, digital health strategy, and "at the coalface" healthcare delivery to produce practical innovation addressing the needs of patients and health systems.
Dr Karpievitch enjoys looking and finding patterns in the data, performing statistical analyses, determining existing trends in the data, and making predictive models. She works with data from various sources and various fields. Although most of her work is related to health and medicine, such as Next Generation Sequencing and Proteomics, she has done work in other areas, such as Forestry where she helped identify strategies to improve forest management.
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