A.I. and Machine Vision for Medical Monitoring

with Art Wallace M.D. Ph.D. of the San Francisco VA Medical Center and UCSF Medical School

Wednesday, November 18th 2026 7:30-8:30pm, Terra Linda High School Innovation Hub

This presentation will discuss the use of artificial intelligence and machine vision to create a new platform for medical monitoring. Many patients in the hospital are not monitored continuously and the medical monitors that we have now (ECG, pulse oximetry, blood pressure cuffs) require the patient to we wired or attached to a monitor. Dr. Wallace is developing a remote, non-contact patient monitor that relies on machine vision to continuously monitor patients. The monitor is designed to reduce morbidity and mortality by identifying patient deterioration prior to cardiac or respiratory arrest. Join us and learn!

Art Wallace, M.D, Ph.D is a cardiac anesthesiologist, professor and vice-chairman of anesthesiology and perioperative care at the University of California San Francisco, and Chief of Anesthesia at the San Francisco VA Medical Center. Dr Wallace has developed medications, surgical procedures, medical devices, and medical informatics software.

Links:

• Art Wallace at UCSF
• Atapir
• AMIA
• Previous MSS Talks

Previous Talks by Art Wallace at MSS:

• The Biology of Consciousness (Sept. 24, 2025)
• Human Hibernation: Is it Possible for Space Flight? (Feb. 5, 2025)
• Machine Vision for Medical Monitoring (Apr. 26, 2023)
• COVID-19 and Long COVID: Rapidly Developing Therapies for a New Disease (Nov. 30, 2022)
• Big Data and Medical Innovation” (Oct. 11, 2017 & Feb. 11, 2015)

Descriptions for the following talks can all be found at this link.

• Invention in Medicine: How Medical Devices get Invented and Go to Market (Oct. 26, 2016; Feb. 16, 2011; Dec. 10, 2008)
• Making Medicine Safer with Drugs, Devices, Software & More (Oct. 23, 2013)
• Computers, Robots, and Medical Education, Oh My! (Dec. 5, 2012)
• Developing a Drug to Prevent Death!: Perioperative Beta Blockade (Mar. 19, 2008)