Chonnam National University Hospital Nuclear Medicine Team, AI Learning Datatone Grand Prize

 Chonnam National University Hospital Nuclear Medicine Team, AI Learning Datatone Grand Prize

The Medical Artificial Intelligence Technology Lab (MAITEC) of the Department of Nuclear Medicine at Chonnam National University Hospital (Director Young-geun Ahn) recently won the grand prize at the '2021 Medical Data Artificial Intelligence Learning Datatone' hosted by the Gachon University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation.

 

This competition was held to develop an AI learning model using data from patients with brain metastasis and Parkinson's disease as part of the AI ​​learning data construction project promoted by the Ministry of Science and ICT and the National Intelligence Service (NIA).

 

Professor Ki-seong Park of the Department of Nuclear Medicine at Chonnam National University Hospital and Pu-reum Kim, a student researcher at the College of Medicine, Chonnam National University participated as a team 'MAITEC' and entered the final to select 6 teams out of 44 teams and won the grand prize. 

 

'MAITEC' won the grand prize by creating a model that distinguishes diseases only with maximum intensity projection images of F-18 FP-CIT positron emission tomography (PET) data, an imaging test for diagnosing Parkinson's disease. 

 

Maximum intensity projection is two-dimensional data created by collecting only the maximum intensity signals from various angles of a three-dimensional image. 

 

If two-dimensional data is used together, the diagnosis accuracy can be further improved.

 

Professor Park Ki-seong said, “Through the grafting of medical science and artificial intelligence, I was able to win the award by understanding the clinical field where AI is applied and the experience gained by conducting research in various fields such as drug development, imaging diagnosis, and disease prediction.” This will save a lot of money and time,” he said.