Artificial intelligence (AI) software player SenseTime and Macau’s oldest and biggest medical facility, Kiang Wu Hospital, partnered to develop smart health applications and research with AI.
Announced during the Macau BEYOND Expo, the partnership aims to build upon deployments of multiple AI modules of SenseTime’s Sensecase Smart Health platform in the past year. This initiative is eyed to accelerate the adoption and research of AI technologies, particularly in the healthcare sector.
The SenseCare platform is a high-performance diagnostic and treatment assistance solution that offers AI-powered tools to various clinical departments. Kiang Wu hospital has continued to expand the use of the SenseCare platform with Liver CT, Carotid CTA, Radiation Therapy (RT) Contour, Liver Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Lower Limb X-ray and more, following its phase-one deployment in December 2020.
The first module to be deployed was the Cardiac Computed Tomography Angiography (CTA). The complex and labor-intensive 3D reconstruction for coronary CTA had long been a big challenge for the hospital and seriously limited daily patient throughput.
With SenseCare Cardiac, radiologists can now use intelligent toolkits for fully automated, high-precision 3D segmentation and reconstruction that help analyze plaques and stenoses in coronary arteries.
The entire process for conducting 3D post-processing has been shortened from 15 to 20 minutes to only 2 to 5 minutes, which lightens doctors’ workload on manual operations.
The software also supports automatic generation of films and structured reports in multiple formats. Compared with the previous two years without the assistance of AI, the hospital’s monthly throughput of cardiac CTA in 2021 nearly doubled.
Another module deployed in the same month was Lung Computed Tomography (CT). The SenseCare Lung CT has effectively boosted the detection rate and accuracy in Lung CT images for early-stage diagnoses. It helped the hospital maintain workflow efficiency during the COVID-19 outbreak.
In line with its principle of human-centric AI development, SenseTime looks forward to bringing its SenseCare platform to more regions such as Southeast Asia and Middle East.
“In line with our principle of human-centric AI development, we hope this partnership will bring high-quality medical services to the patients at the hospital and elevate Macau’s healthcare standards,” said Zhang Shaoting, VP at SenseTime.
SenseTime aims to bolster industries like healthcare and medical tourism and to contribute to the global smart health ecosystem in order to provide even greater benefits to people and patients throughout the globe.
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