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Fujitsu Develops AI-Based Technology to Retrieve Similar Disease Cases from a Computed Tomography Database

By Neha Rastogi June 23, 2017

Fujitsu has announced the development of an AI-based technology that will retrieve similar disease cases from a computed tomography (CT) database of previously taken images. It has been developed with joint efforts of Fujitsu Laboratories and Fujitsu R&D Center Co. Ltd. It will work by retrieving similar cases of abnormal shadows expanding in a 3-dimensional manner.
 
There are existing technologies used by doctors to specify an area of focus in a certain slice image and retrieve other patients with similar slice images. Such techniques have proved to be beneficial when the abnormal shadows are concentrated at one place, like an early-stage lung cancer. 
 
However, in diffuse lung diseases, abnormal shadows are spread throughout the organ in all directions which make it mandatory for the doctors to re-confirm 3-dimensional similarities and hence it takes a great deal of time.
 
Fujitsu Develops AI-Based Technology to Retrieve Similar Cases (Image Courtesy: Fujitsu)
 
So, in order to resolve the issue, Fujitsu has developed this AI-based technology that accurately retrieves similar cases in which abnormal shadows have spread in 3 dimensions. It automatically separates the complex interior of the organs into areas through image analysis, with machine learning to recognize abnormal shadow candidates in each area. 
 
By dividing up the organ spatially into periphery, core, top, bottom, left, and right, one can focus on the spread of abnormal shadows in each area. This facilitates doctors to view things in the same way as determining similarities for diagnosis. 
The technology was tested using real-world data resulting in 85% accuracy in the top 5 retrievals among correct answers pre-determined by the doctors. This technology is expected to lead to an increased efficiency in diagnostic tasks for doctors. It also reduces the time needed to identify the correct diagnosis for cases where identification previously took a lot of time.
 
About Intel
 
Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California that was founded by Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce. It is the world’s largest and highest valued semiconductor chip makers based on revenue and is the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors: the processors found in most personal computers (PCs). 
 
Intel supplies processors for computer systems and manufactures motherboard chipsets, network interface controllers and integrated circuits, flash memory, graphics chips, embedded processors and other devices related to communications and computing.
 
About Fujitsu
 
Fujitsu is the leading Japanese information and communication technology (ICT) company offering a full range of technology products, solutions, and services. Approximately 155,000 Fujitsu people support customers in more than 100 countries. We use our experience and the power of ICT to shape the future of society with our customers.

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