Brain disease discovered by AI deep learning First approval for medical device October 15th 11:27
AI = A system that finds diseases from brain images using a technology called deep learning, where artificial intelligence learns, was developed by a venture company in Tokyo and approved as a medical device. This is the first time in Japan that an AI system using deep learning has been approved by the government.
The new system was developed by “LPIXEL”, a venture company from the University of Tokyo that develops image analysis software using AI.
The system allows AI to read MRI images of the brains of patients with cerebral aneurysms and healthy people, which also lead to subarachnoid hemorrhage, so that AI can learn by using deep learning technology and features that can be seen in disease images. Grasp
The brain MRI image is then used to determine if there is a suspicion of a cerebral aneurysm and assists the doctor in diagnosis.
Only 68% of specialists were able to find a cerebral aneurysm from the image, but the system has been approved as a medical device last month because accuracy has improved to 77%. .
According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, the AI system using deep learning has never been approved by the government as a medical device.
LPIXEL President Kimoto Shimahara says, “By utilizing AI, we can make more accurate diagnoses and the medical field will change.