「AIX」Chest X-ray Screening with AI

Overview

Prof. Pheng Ann Heng's team has developed an AI enpowered chest x-ray screening system, by integrating novel artifical intelligence model and technique, the efficiency of large-scale medical imaging processing is improved.

Technical name of innovation

AI-X: Artificial Intelligence for Chest X-ray Analysis: Towards Large-scale Data Screening and Manipulation

Research completion

2021

Commercialisation opportunities

technology licensing agreement

Problem addressed

As effort to support the clinical decision of doctors and radiologists, Prof. Pheng Ann Heng's team has developed an chest x-ray screening system based on AI technology named "AIX" . With the assistance of AI technology, doctors can diagnose faster and more accurate.

Innovation

Capable of automatic analyzing Chest X-rays, including identifying and diagnosing more than ten kinds of diseases, generating bounding boxes and heatmaps to localize suspected lesions, and analyzing organs with cardiothoracic segmentation.
Automatic retrieving of similar Chest X-rays or longitudinal data of the same patient for comparing and diagnosing.
Providing multiple artificial analysis tools for doctors to make further diagnoses, including lesion axes, angle, and area measurement.

Key impact

All analysis are processed through the cloud, and users can enter the product on the web page without preparing high-performance computing chips or processors on the client side.
Artificial intelligence assists doctors in diagnosing, which reduces the reading time for doctors and improves diagnosis efficiency.
Allowing users to upload Chest X-rays through the web page for initial self-diagnosis.

Application

Different computer systems used in the hospitals for reading the Chest X-rays.

Patent

US patent: US-2022-0067940-A1

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The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

Founded in 1963, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is a forward-looking comprehensive research university with a global vision and a mission to combine tradition with modernity, and to bring together China and the West. CUHK teachers and students hail from all around the world. Four Nobel laureates are associated with the university, and it is the only tertiary institution in Hong Kong with recipients of the Nobel Prize, Turing Award, Fields Medal and Veblen Prize sitting as faculty in residence. CUHK graduates are connected worldwide through an extensive alumni network. CUHK undertakes a wide range of research programmes in many subject areas, and strives to provide scope for all academic staff to undertake consultancy and collaborative projects with industry.

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