AI based patient examination | Public Institutions

This compendium, prepared by the Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government (DPIDG) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), aims to capture emerging trends in digital responses of UN Member States against the COVID-19 pandemic along with other digital government initiatives and provide a preliminary analysis of their main features. These cases are shared for exchange of information so that Member States can learn from each other and possibly create new partnerships.

Korea's AI-based medical image analysis system Companies Vuno, Lunitand JLK Inspection,train their AI algorithms with large-scale chest X-ray photographic data, and detect abnormal findingssuch as pneumonia –a major symptom of COVID-19 patients–with high accuracy in just a few seconds.

Country

Republic of Korea

Institution

Ministry of Health and Welfare