HTC's efforts in the development of IA technologies and platforms for health care and other applications have yielded significant results, thanks to the DeepQ AI platform already used by hospitals to support diagnosis and assisted virtual reality surgery and universities for education and training purposes. The company is also actively developing blockchain-based platforms for healthcare applications, according to Edward Chang, president of HTC's healthcare division.
Chang said the DeepQ platform supports Nvidia DGX and Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud-based systems and Google platforms, enabling companies and individual users to conduct AI training or simulation courses on the website or on the cloud.
He revealed that the platform was adopted by Taipei Medical University Hospital, Mackay Memorial Hospital and Taipei Municipal Wanfang Hospital for diagnostic instructions, personal medicine, patient registration advice, drug monitoring, disease prevention and vaccination services. .
The DeepQ platform can also be applied to accelerate the training of artificial intelligence and optimize the models of AI applications to reduce the time and costs for the development of AI applications, added Chang, adding that the best universities in Taiwan have incorporated the platform in their AI education programs.
In terms of VR applications for health care, HTC has launched the Vivepaper, operating room and services for 3D organs. Among these, Vivepaper is an AR product designed to support immersive immersive reality experiences for education, training and entertainment through multimedia content including graphics, video and music, Chang revealed.
The surgical theater of the company can combine different medical devices such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) tools to recompose 3D models and can also use VR to help surgeons perform optimal surgical training programs.
Regarding the 3D organon, it is now the first VR-based anatomy teaching app, with over 4,000 structures of the human body, organs and animations incorporated to allow users to freely operate skeletons, muscles, blood vessels and 3D organs to be examined anatomical structures from different angles.
The healthcare division of HTC is also developing a blockchain-based healthcare application platform, with the first platform, dubbed DeeplinQ, which will be launched in 2019. The platform can also be applied to privacy management on social networks and smart contracts, according to Chang.
Edward Chang, president of the HTC health division
Photo: Max Wang, Digitimes, December 2018