2021 Volume 39 Issue 1 Pages 8-12
The National Institute of Informatics has built a cloud platform that can be accessed by the academic network SINET5, and has been developing AI image analysis technology by continuously accepting image data from six medical societies on the cloud platform. Regarding radiological images, we have accepted CT images from Japanese Medical Imaging Database（J-MID）run by the Japan Radiological Society. By October 2020, we have received more than 180 million images. On the other hand, among the cases of coronavirus infection（COVID-19）that occurred around the end of 2019, there are CT images showing pneumonia peculiar to COVID-19. Therefore, we have begun AI image analysis with additional incidental information from the Japan Radiological Society. Multiple universities are participating in this analysis, and it is important to use common data. Therefore, we extracted the data to be analyzed from the large amount of data and created a mechanism to share the information generated by the analysis researchers.
