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▲ Mr. Alfred Sit Wing-hang, Secretary for Innovation and Technology hosting the Opening Remark for BME2020 (Source: HKIE, BME 2020)
The well-attended online conference on November 27–28, 2020, focused on the world’s current biggest issue of “Fighting COVID-19 and Future Pandemics with Innovation & Technology.” Imsight was first invited by The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE) for the meeting.
▲ BME 2020’s poster with the theme “Fighting COVID-19 and Future Pandemics with Innovation & Technology”
Focusing on the topic "Automated analysis of COVID-19 from CT images via semi-supervised deep learning", Dr. Huangjing Lin, Imsight’s Director of Research and Development, delivered a keynote speech focusing on finding suspicious COVID-19 infections via deep convolutional neural network and semantic segmentation.
▲ Dr. LIN Huang-Jing hosted a concurrent session on Nov 28.
Lin pointed out the pandemic has been spread all over the world since the end of 2019, followed by the availability to diagnose the infection through RT-PCR and CT imaging respectively. “Using uncertainty-aware cross-consistency training (UA-CCT) to segment COVID-19 region” he added, “We used CT imaging to empower AI to help doctors in making the diagnosis.”
▲ HKIE coordinating a virtual conference “BME 2020” (Source: HKIE, BME 2020)
Despite the impact of Covid, the two-day meeting invited heavyweight guests including international academicians, well-known scholars, and senior executives to make multiple rounds of discussions ranging from vision strategy to practical experiences such as the latest development on deep learning AI applications in MRI and endoluminal robotic-assisted surgery.
