AI & Oculomics archive for August 2026
When the chatbot gets it wrong: Navigating AI-generated health misinformation in ophthalmology
Patients are beginning to turn to large language model chatbots for healthcare information. As clinicians, we are not only required to know when they are wrong, but why they are wrong – and what we can do about it. Recently,...
Shafi Balal on predicting keratoconus progression
In this interview, section editors Nima Ghadiri and Arun James Thirunavukarasu ask Ophthalmic Surgeon and NIHR Doctoral Fellow Shafi Balal about the development of his AI model for predicting keratoconus progression risk, with the longer-term objective of using AI on...
