Most recently, DrAidTM, developed by VinBrain(Vingroup), has been awarded the ACM SIGAI Industry Award 2021 for Excellencein Artificial Intelligence.
As the world's top award in the field of artificial intelligence,this award is granted to only one AI product per year.
The ACM SIGAI Award is held by the Association forComputing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI) -the world's largest scientific and educational computing society, establishedin 1947 with nearly 100,000 members.
DrAidTM, the first complete AI product of healthcarein Vietnam, was among the three Vietnamese representatives at the Nvidia’s GPUTechnology Conference (GTC), which took place from November 8-11 and broughttogether more than 200,000 international researchers and leaders in the AIfield.
DrAidTM was launched in June 2020, and is capable ofdetecting and screening over 21 abnormal signs and pathologies of Lung - Heart- Bone within 5 seconds with an accuracy of over 89 percent and sharingdiagnostic results via QR code or link.
In particular, it is capable of self-warning ofCOVID-19, including asymptomatic cases or mild lung injury based on uprightchest X-Ray and improving accuracy in addition to reducing false negatives whenbeing used in combination with PCR test.
The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health has putDrAid into use at hospitals and medical centres in the southern metropolis, andinitially gained significant results in COVID-19 response.
Statistics by the World Intellectual PropertyOrganisation (WIPO) show that, as of 2018, among six ASEAN countries with AIinventions, Vietnam ranked second with a total of 372 AI patent applications.
Between 2016 and 2020, the country counted 96AI-related projects with total investment amounting to 169.2 billion VND (7.47million USD)./.