MDES joins hands with HUAWEI, provides 5G solution and AI Technology to Siriraj Hospital
[April 13, Bangkok] – Digital Economy and Society Ministry, together with Huawei Technologies (Thailand) Co., Ltd., provide AI-assisted solution with 5G technology to Siriraj Hospital, which aims to help output diagnosis result automatically, quickly, and correctly through high-speed network.
This world-class technology will strengthen Thai medical staff capabilities to cope with COVID-19 pandemic effectively.
The AI-assisted solution based on HUAWEI CLOUD technology is co-developed by Huawei and HY Medical, a China enterprise that is a leading expert in the AI medical industry, focusing on medical imaging through artificial intelligence, with the technology of computer vision and deep learning. This technology leverages the computer vision and medical image analysis technologies to segment the multiple pulmonary ground glass opacities (GGOs) and lung consolidation and make quantitative evaluations through CTs of patients' lungs. It can provide result of image analyzing as quick as 25 seconds per case, can help doctors more accurately distinguish between early, advanced, and severe stages of COVID-19. In addition, 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 5G network will enhance effectiveness of medical service in hospital by guarantee quality of high-speed connection, high reliability and low latency. The healthcare system will benefit from improved response times with more 3-4 times uploaded efficiency compared to WiFi, patient monitoring, data collection and analytics, remote collaboration and resource allocation. It also sets an example for digitalized, data driven and Cloud-based innovative major public emergency response.
Recently, Huawei Technologies (Thailand) Co., Ltd., provided the AI solution for COVID-19 diagnosis to Ramathibodi Hospital and delivered Huawei Telemedicine Video Conference Solution to Ministry of Public Health of Thailand, as part of its plans to help coping with COVID-19 situation. The solution is real-time and full-functional teleconference system that can facilitate Thai medical staff to work smoother, doctors can monitor and diagnose patients from everywhere through their own smart devices. More importantly, this reduces risk of infection for Thai medical team.
