Vasant Kearney

Company building

Founder and CEO, Onlay AI

Building agentic automation for dental revenue cycle management: eligibility, benefits, claim creation, attachments, payer follow-up, payment posting, and reconciliation inside existing practice workflows.

First-author paper

Journal of Dentistry paper on GAN dental inpainting

First-author work showing how generative image completion can restore incomplete dental imagery and improve periodontal clinical attachment level prediction.

• A generative adversarial inpainting network to enhance prediction of periodontal clinical attachment levelJournal of Dentistry
• PubMed record for the dental inpainting studyPubMed

Granted patents

Granted Retrace dental AI patents

Issued IP covering dental image synthesis, image-quality prediction, dental readiness, periodontal measurement, restorative planning, inpainting, and image-to-text generation.

• GAN for dental image super-resolution, sharpening, and denoisingUS 11,398,013
• Dental image synthesis with semantic activation blocksUS 11,367,188
• Dental image quality prediction using domain-specific AIUS 11,366,985
• AI platform for determining dental readinessUS 11,357,604
• AI architecture for identification of periodontal featuresUS 11,348,237
• Restorative dentistry treatment planning using adversarial learningUS 11,311,247
• Inpainting dental images with missing anatomyUS 11,276,151
• AI-based dental image-to-text generationUS 11,217,350

Granted patents

Granted patents in cloud radiotherapy planning and dental measurement

Patented systems connected clinical infrastructure and dental computer vision: cloud radiation therapy treatment planning, plus AI-based pixel-spacing, distance, and volumetric prediction from dental images.

• Systems and methods for cloud-based radiation therapy treatment planningUS 11,058,891
• AI platform for pixel spacing, distance, and volumetric predictions from dental imagesUS 11,189,028

Cofounding, IP, and funding

Retrace cofounding, original patents, and Series A

Helped cofound Retrace in 2018; funded the original compute stack and filed the original provisional patent portfolio from early spring through summer 2019 while still an assistant professor, before Retrace's $18M Series A closed in November 2019.

First-author papers

Scientific Reports and RSNA Radiology: AI papers

First-author generative AI publications on synthetic dose prediction and MR-to-CT translation for radiation oncology workflows.

• DoseGAN: synthetic dose prediction using attention-gated discrimination and generationScientific Reports
• Attention-aware MR-to-CT image translation using CycleGANsRadiology: AI

UCSF faculty and clinical practice

Assistant Professor, UCSF Radiation Oncology

Served as a UCSF assistant professor from June 2018 through January 2020, treating lung and spinal radiation oncology patients four days per week at Parnassus Radiation Oncology while leading clinical AI and machine-learning research.

Talk and first-author papers

AAPM AI talk, MR-to-CT translation, and CT segmentation

Expanded clinical AI work with a 2019 AAPM session and first-author papers/abstracts on spatial-attention MR-to-CT translation and semantic CT segmentation.

• Appropriate Use of Machine Learning in MedicineAAPM Virtual Library
• Spatial attention gated VAE-enhanced CycleGANs for MRI to CT translationIJROBP abstract
• Attention-enabled 3D boosted CNNs for semantic CT segmentationPhysics in Medicine & Biology

First-author papers

Radiation oncology AI papers

First-author studies moved from dose prediction to deformable registration, treatment-planning review, and safety-minded AI use in radiation oncology.

• DoseNet: volumetric dose prediction using 3D fully-convolutional neural networksPhysics in Medicine & Biology
• Artificial intelligence in the IMRT planning process for head and neck cancerOral Oncology
• Unsupervised CNN-based deformable image registrationPhysics in Medicine & Biology
• Continuous arc delivery optimization for CyberKnife m6Medical Physics
• Correcting TG-119 confidence limitsMedical Physics
• Deep Learning Misuse in Radiation OncologyIJROBP abstract
• Multi-task CNN model for autosegmentation of prostate patientsIJROBP abstract

First-author paper

Landmark-guided deformable image registration

Early image-registration research automating landmark guidance for deformable registration in radiotherapy imaging.

• Automated landmark-guided deformable image registrationPhysics in Medicine & Biology

First-author abstract

CT to cone-beam CT registration

Early work aligning planning CT and cone-beam CT for adaptive radiotherapy workflows.

• Automated landmark-guided CT to cone-beam CT deformable image registrationMedical Physics abstract

First-author abstracts

Adaptive radiotherapy reoptimization and dose evaluation

Adaptive radiotherapy methods for plan adjustment and CBCT-guided dose evaluation.

• Inter-fractional morphing aperture based reoptimization toolMedical Physics abstract
• CBCT-guided intra-fractional adaptive radiotherapy dose evaluationMedical Physics abstract

First-author abstracts

2D deformable registration and 4DCT evaluation

Early IGART and 4DCT modeling work around motion, tumor regression, and anatomical change.

• Evaluation of 2D DIR from CBCT to 4DCT projections as a tool for IGARTMedical Physics abstract
• 4DCT geometrical eigenmode model for tumor regression and breathing-pattern changesMedical Physics abstract