AI healthcare software company VinBrain, a company supported by Vietnam’s largest conglomerate Vingroup, has signed an official cooperation agreement with Microsoft.
WHAT IT’S ABOUT
According to a press release, the partnership for the first time for a global technology company in Vietnam will work across three areas of healthcare using artificial intelligence: data sharing, authentication. cross product and R&D.
VinBrain will leverage DrAid, a suite of AI-powered pathology solutions that can detect 21 heart, lung and bone disease indicators. The US FDA certified platform is being used by about 2,000 doctors and more than 100 hospitals in Vietnam.
The AI platform runs on a dataset of over 2 million images sourced from multiple regions – US, Asia and Europe. These data will be shared via Microsoft Azure, which will also ensure privacy and security, manage ever-changing compliance regulations, and improve data governance.
As part of the partnership, VinBrain will also use Azure Cognitive Services for Computer Vision to validate new deep learning models, including Microsoft’s latest computer vision model called Florence.
It also seeks to use Azure Cognitive Services to develop its own AI capabilities to process and return images, and to build, deploy, and improve image classifiers, hoping that the service will help increase the accuracy of DrAid’s imaging capabilities.
The same service will also be used by both companies in their joint R&D to launch new AI products to address global healthcare challenges.
WHY IT IMPORTANT
Through the cooperation of Microsoft and VinBrain, AI can be applied to improve health services in remote areas where there are limited medical facilities. “On the social side, this will help speed up the resolution process [the] growing number of healthcare problems due to lack of infrastructure, unequal doctor-to-patient ratios and increasing demand for healthcare services,” they said in a statement. declare.
For VinBrain CEO Steven Truong, this partnership will help the company focus more deeply and accelerate the development of AI products in the medical technology sector. Using the latest in AI and assessment technology, this partnership with Microsoft will directly impact billions of people from the very beginning. [disease] detection productivity and workflow,” he added.
On the other hand, the partnership is seen as opening the door for Microsoft to expand its presence in the healthcare sector in Southeast Asia, according to Dr. Yumao Lu, director of partner engineering at Microsoft USA.
TREND TO BIGGER
VinBrain has recently developed a The AI model screens for tuberculosis, one of the most common diseases in Vietnam. The TB diagnostic model, developed using Microsoft Azure, has been integrated into DrAid.
