Bangkok--1 Apr--Carl Byoir & Associates
Digital Economy and Society Ministry, together with Huawei Technologies (Thailand) Co., Ltd., is helping to enhance Thai medical personnel at Ramathibodi Hospital with CLOUD technology, by providing CD with AI solution for CT quantification results of COVID-19 diagnosis designed to reduce the time in medical image analyzing of COVID-19 suspected cases to as quick as 25 seconds per case.
The AI solution of HUAWEI CLOUD applies computer vision to leverage healthcare front in Thailand. This illustrates how HUAWEI CLOUD, the first world-leading cloud service provider in Thailand, help transform Thai medical services to combating the impact of COVID-19 during this challenging time.
Mr. Puttipong Punnakanta, Digital Economy and Society Minister, commented about the partnership with Huawei Technologies (Thailand) to bring the technological innovation to the foremost state hospital that, “As one of the determinants for the diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19, CT scans are fast and accurate but require multiple rechecks and image reviews. To help reduce the workload of Thai medical personnel in this situation, the MDES partners with Huawei to bring its innovation AI on HUAWEI CLOUD to help doctors to analyze CT quantification results with faster and higher diagnosis efficiency.”
Professor Piyamitr Sritara, Dean, Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University said that, “The Artificial Intelligent technology helps clinical doctors to achieve faster and more accurate diagnosis. The AI delivers quantitative evaluations of both conditions through CTs of patients’ lungs. By combining clinical information and laboratory results, doctors can more accurately distinguish between early, advanced, and severe stages of COVID-19. It reduces the time in image analyzing to as quick as 25 seconds per case and also facilitates early screening and prevention. The solution can greatly help reduce the workload of Thai medical personnel in this situation.”
CT scans are a medical imaging procedure for the diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19. However, due to large numbers of lesions in lungs and rapid changes, multiple rechecks and image reviews are required in a short period of time, significantly increasing the workloads of imaging doctors. Furthermore, radiology specialists who can analyze patients with the novel coronavirus COVID-19 are still limited. The AI technology from HUAWEI CLOUD can help process medical image and CT quantification result data from patients’ lungs by utilizing Artificial Intelligent technology, in order to analyze whether they are infected with the new Corona virus (Novel coronavirus, SARS-COV-2) or the COVID-19 disease. More than 20 hospitals in China has adopted this technology to handle the COVID-19 and after continues training and optimization, the solution has become more efficient with classification of accuracy rate at 96% and with DICE score higher than 85.The AI solution from HUAWEI CLOUD will help reduce the heavy workloads of doctors, making them available to diagnose more Thai patients and handle the COVID-19 situation more effectively.
Recently, Huawei Technologies (Thailand) Co., Ltd., provided Huawei Telemedicine Video Conference Solution to Ministry of Public Health of Thailand, as a part of its plans to help cope with COVID-19 situation. The solution is real-time and full-functional teleconference system that can facilitate Thai medical staffs to work smoother, doctors can monitor and diagnose patients from everywhere through their own smart devices, and the more important thing is that it reduces risk of infection for Thai medical team as well.
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