Victoriano Luna Medical Centre, the key support unit of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) will be using Lunit's AI-powered chest screening solution to detect abnormalities, including lung cancer, tuberculosis, and pneumonia.
The solution, INSIGHT CXR from Lunit, a global provider of AI-powered solutions for cancer diagnostics and therapeutics, is a deep learning-based software that assists radiologists or clinicians in interpreting chest X-rays.
It works by generating location information of detected lesions, an abnormality score reflecting the AI’s calculation of the actual presence of the detected lesion and an AI case report summarising the overall analysis result, narrowed down to each finding.
The AI tool automatically detects 10 abnormal radiologic findings and also supports tuberculosis screening on X-ray images. It claims to detect lung cancer and unusual abnormalities with 97-99 percent accuracy.
Lunit's CEO Brandon Suh said the tool assists radiology residents in improving their diagnostic performance and reducing reading time, which ultimately accelerates the decision-making process and treatment in the emergency departments.
Radiologists can triage normal cases quickly and focus on reading abnormal cases where lesions might exist based on the abnormality scores, he added.
The new tool is found to be "effective" in the detection of small and subtle pulmonary nodules overlapped in the hilar shadow, ribs, heart, and diaphragm, enabling radiologists to reduce overlooked lung cancer cases.
Further, the chest radiograph interpretation is said to help medical professionals detect Covid19 infected pneumonia accurately, enabling prompt isolation and timely treatment.
Lunit said it has successfully demonstrated the effectiveness of the AI tool in several military settings.
"This was achieved by training our AI software with data specifically tailored for military use and implementing it in Korean key military health institutions," Suh added.
It has supplied the diagnosis tool to South Korea’s national police hospital and ROKS Yangmanchun, the country’s guided missile destroyer currently carrying out missions in the Gulf of Aden.
The firm has unveiled plans to bring the tool to a military hospital in Uzbekistan by the end of this year.
