Patriot One Technologies Works with Amazon Web Services, Vancouver General Hospital and the University of British Columbia on...
28 Mai 2020 - 2:00PM
Patriot One Technologies Inc.’s (TSX: PAT) (OTCQX: PTOTF)
(FRANKFURT: 0PL) wholly-owned subsidiary Xtract Technologies
(“Xtract AI”) is collaborating with Amazon Web
Services (AWS), Vancouver General Hospital (VGH), the University of
British Columbia (UBC), and SapienML among others in the
development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) solution to help
radiologists identify the increased risk of the COVID-19 virus.
The project is being led by Dr. Savvas Nicolaou
and Dr. William Parker and is supported by the UBC Community Health
and Wellbeing Cloud Innovation Center (UBC-CIC), powered by Amazon
Web Services (AWS). The UBC-CIC’s mission is to: solve real-world
challenges that materially benefit British Columbia, Canada and the
world, by engaging and collaborating with stakeholders in Community
Health and Wellbeing innovation challenges and make the solutions
available open source globally. Additional support for the project
is being provided by the Vancouver Coastal Health Research
Institute (VCHRI).
Data is being used from CT and X-ray scans
obtained from around the world, with annotations from a group of 14
radiologists volunteering their time. The annotators are labelling
the images to segment them into three classes: background, normal
lung, and Ground Glass Opacity (GGO). The percentage of lung volume
affected by GGO is a leading indicator for COVID-19, and the
development of an automated approach to assess this can greatly
assist medical practitioners to quickly diagnose early onset of the
virus.
Using these labeled images, the Xtract AI team
is training innovative 3D residual networks, a particular style of
AI algorithm, to automatically identify GGO volumes in the lungs
and compare them with the total volume of the lungs. The ratio of
affected lung, and thereby an indicator for COVID-19, in new
patients can then be calculated from analyzing CT and X-ray images
of their lungs. The team will continue to improve the model as more
data becomes available, with the aim of achieving >90%
diagnostic accuracy.
“AI models are not magic, but this model we’ve
developed is an open source gift to start answering questions,”
said Dr. William Parker, who is leading the project, and is a
radiology resident at UBC. “If we are going to get to the point of
helping patients, we need to know the strengths and weaknesses of
the models, and we need to have an understanding that not all
models are created equal. The goal of our AI model is to drive
feedback so that we can improve the model and make it available for
clinical use in the fall of 2020.”
The model has been released under an open source
license, to be shared with health care facilities worldwide to help
early diagnosis of COVID-19 patients.
Martin Cronin, CEO of Patriot One Technologies
said “This is an incredibly important project, which we are proud
to be a collaborator on, and we hope that our team and technology
can provide a meaningful addition to the ongoing efforts to
minimise COVID-19’s impact on the world.”
About XTRACT TECHNOLOGIES INC - a
subsidiary of Patriot One Technologies
Xtract AI develops and commercializes artificial
intelligence, machine learning, deep neural networks and predictive
solutions utilizing advanced technology for public institutions and
private enterprise. The firm has an award winning, highly skilled
team that develops AI solutions to solve challenges across computer
vision (CV), natural language processing (NLP), anomaly detection,
and time-series analysis for applications ranging from security and
defence to environmental solutions and healthcare. For more
information on building your AI solution, visit: xtract.ai
About Patriot One Technologies
Inc. (TSX:PAT) (OTCQX: PTOTF) (FRA: 0PL):
Patriot Ones' mission is to deliver innovative
threat detection and counter-terrorism solutions for safer
communities. Our PATSCAN™ Multi-Sensor Covert Threat Detection
Platform provides a network of advanced sensor technologies with
powerful next generation AI/machine learning software. The network
can be covertly deployed from far perimeter to interiors across
multiple weapons-restricted facilities. The PATSCAN™ platform
identifies and reports threats wherever required; car park,
building approach, employee & public entryways and inside the
facilities. Each solution in the platform identifies weapons,
related threats or disturbances, or potential health and safety
threats for immediate security response. Our motto Deter, Detect
and Defend is based on the belief that widespread use of the
PATSCAN™ platform will act as an effective deterrent to diminish
the epidemic of active threats around the globe. For more
information, visit: www.patriot1tech.com or follow us on Twitter
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