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Lunit releases its AI online to support healthcare professionals manage COVID-19

Press releases may be edited for formatting or style | March 30, 2020
Lunit, a medical AI software company that develops AI-powered analysis of lung diseases via chest x-ray images, today announced that it will be releasing its software online, free of charge, to help healthcare professionals manage coronavirus.

Coronavirus is known to cause pneumonia, which can be found as "consolidation" on chest x-ray images. The software, developed by Lunit, is an AI solution for chest x-ray analysis, detecting 10 different radiologic findings including lung nodule, consolidation, and more with 97-99% accuracy. For the online release, the company is providing consolidation findings only, which is suggestive of coronavirus-related pneumonia.

"We hope our decision to publicly release a special version of our software can help ease the strain in the healthcare system in countries around the world," said Brandon Suh, CEO of Lunit. "Our AI solution has been in use at coronavirus care centers in South Korea, which is one of the countries that are successfully "flattening the curve" by applying diverse and innovative measures in the battle against the virus."

In South Korea, Lunit INSIGHT CXR has been deployed to assist the diagnosis of COVID-19 patients from Daegu and nearby region, the hardest-hit area where approximately 8,000 patients—about 85% of the entire domestic cases—has been diagnosed. Seoul National University Hospital has built a coronavirus care center in Daegu, where physicians remotely examine patients via video call.

The patients' chest x-ray images are sent directly to radiologists in Seoul, where Lunit INSIGHT CXR is used to support the radiologists in the management of COVID-19. The system helps healthcare professionals in the prompt and early discovery of patients, sending them directly to larger hospitals for proper treatment if required.

Beyond South Korea, Lunit INSIGHT CXR has also been installed at PreventSenior, one of the largest hospital networks in Brazil with 8 locations throughout the metropolitan region of Sao Paulo. PreventSenior is one of the COVID-19 detection centers that use chest x-ray screening for patients with mild symptoms.

In March, PreventSenior has deployed Lunit INSIGHT CXR for the analysis of more than 3,000 chest x-ray images suspected of coronavirus infection. The doctors at PreventSenior says that Lunit INSIGHT CXR is providing great help "especially for patient triage," as the hospital is "overflowing with patients while the number of radiologists remains low."

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