DrAid interface. DrAid can detect, screening over 21 abnormal signs and pathologies of Lung - Heart - Bone within 5 seconds with an accuracy of over 89 percent. (Photo: VNA)As the world's top award in the field of artificial intelligence, this awardis granted to only one AI product per year. The award will be presented at theInternational Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2021 fromAugust 19-26, 2021 in Canada. In 2019, the award was granted to MicrosoftCorporation.
The ACM SIGAI Industry Award for Excellence in Artificial Intelligence (AI)is one of the world's top awards in the field of artificial intelligence whichwill be given annually to individuals or teams who have transferred originalacademic research into AI applications. The ACM SIGAI Award is held by theAssociation for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on ArtificialIntelligence (AI) - the world's largest scientific and educational computingsociety, established in 1947 with nearly 100,000 members.
The ACM SIGAI Industry Award has been awarded since 2019. Microsoft, led bythe famous AI scientist John Langford (who gained H-Index of 71 – an indexindicating the influence of global scientific publications with more than41,000 citations) was chosen as the winner of the inaugural 2019 award. Due tothe COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020Industry Award was unable to go forward. In 2021, the award is restarted andgranted to a Make-in Vietnam product - “DrAid for Radiology” by VinBrain.
Launched on June 14th, 2020 as an intelligent assistant for radiologists,“DrAid for Radiology” is the first product of VinBrain and also the firstcomplete AI product of healthcare in Vietnam.The product is capable of detecting and screening over 21 abnormal signs andpathologies of Lung - Heart - Bone within 5 seconds with an accuracy of over 89 percent and sharing diagnostic resultsvia QR code or link. In particular, it is capable of self-warning of COVID-19,including asymptomatic cases or mild lung injury based on upright chest X-Rayand improving accuracy in addition to reducing false negatives when being usedin combination with PCR test. DrAid also features the (remotely) “Consulting asecond doctor” function. Enabled by images shared directly from DrAid, doctorscan remotely consult with colleagues or leading experts without being affectedby geographical barriers.
DrAid was highly appreciated by the ACM SIGAI selection committee becauseof its combination and application of the most state-of-the-art AI techniques,such as multi-class classification and structured prediction, active learning,adversarial training, convolutional networks, speech recognition for automaticmedical report editing, lesion localisationon medical images with machine learning using high-tech AI based on models withhundreds of millions of pixel parameters and big data of millions of images ofmillions of pixels each, among others, into a comprehensive health care AIservice.
Many world-famous scientists, including Professor Andrew Ng at Stanford University,also highly appreciated DrAid, especially for its practical application.Professor Andrew Ng is one of the Top 4of AI scientists in the world. He is also the Founder of Coursera and GoogleBrain and a pioneer in the field of online AI learning with 77 million users.Others include Curtis Langlotz, Stanford University, Assistant Professor andChief of Health Services Research, Department of Radiology; Professor Al Pisano-Dean of School of Engineering, University of California San Diego (UCSD), Co-Chairof Pre-screening Committee of VinFuture Prize, etc./.
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