Lunit expands AI deployment in navy services abroad

Lunit is increasing its deployment of an AI imaging resolution to South Korean navy services and troops abroad. 

This comes following the profitable pilot deployment of Lunit INSIGHT CXR, its AI-powered chest x-ray evaluation software program, final yr within the military, navy, and air power medical establishments, together with the Armed Forces Medical Command and the Armed Forces Capital Hospital. 

The corporate has been supplying its chest x-ray evaluation resolution to military-run medical services as a part of the AI Convergence venture of the South Korean Ministry of Science and ICT and the Nationwide IT Business Promotion Company. 

WHY IT MATTERS

Within the fourth yr of its participation within the venture, Lunit helps additional enhance entry to diagnostic and remedy companies in distant areas the place navy troops are stationed, resembling navy ships. Significantly, it plans to develop a personalized AI resolution that will likely be linked with moveable x-ray imaging gear to enormously enhance care accessibility.

THE LARGER TREND

Lunit has been taking part within the South Korean authorities’s AI Convergence venture since 2020 by means of its consortium with biotech firm Basgen Bio.  

Apart from navy services, Lunit INSIGHT CXR has additionally been deployed globally over the previous few months. Lunit just lately secured partnerships with the Albert Einstein Israelita Hospital in Brazil and with Radlink in Singapore to boost their chest x-ray evaluation capabilities utilizing AI. 

Early this yr, Lunit disclosed its plan to open a wholly-owned subsidiary in Europe to help with its gross sales and community growth.