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Tokyo Shinagawa Hospital
How AI supports chest image diagnosis
Customer
Tokyo Shinagawa Hospital was established in April 2018 through a business transfer from Toshiba Hospital, which was opened in 1945.
Challenge
While chest CT image diagnosis is helping the early diagnosis of COVID-19, AI support can make advanced knowledge and specialist expertise in this field even more widely available. Through co-creation with Tokyo Shinagawa Hospital, with its advanced expertise in this area, Fujitsu is now developing new AI technology that supports faster, more accurate image diagnosis.
Solution
- An AI solution that accurately indicates the likelihood of COVID-19 infection by detecting and digitizing the pattern of abnormal shadows observed in chest CT images
- By shortening the time required to visually check hundreds of CT images, the solution has reduced the workload for physicians and helped ensure the early isolation and treatment of infected people
Outcomes
- AI support also enables non-specialists to perform the diagnostic imaging, contributing to improving the efficiency of diagnostic and overall medical operation
- Continuous joint development with medical institutions will further improve this functionality, for example helping to predict infection severity and applying AI diagnosis to other diseases
