2020.05.28
AI-enabled research activities for COVID-19
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- AI Japan R&D Network Office
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a versatile and powerful technology. It can contribute to countermeasures against new coronavirus infections in various ways, such as the development of therapeutic agents, infection simulation, the creation of remote environment, etc.
The AI Japan secretariat has surveyed members of universities and public institutions on their AI's efforts to prevent COVID-19 infection. This is the first survey as a part of our unified information dissemination on artificial intelligence (AI) research. The results will be published as follows.
The last update: Nov 20, 2020. From 24 universities and public organizations, 73 Activities are reported.
Research classification
Infection disease control by AI
- Free provision of ABCI, a cloud-based computing system for AI, to support research related to the new coronavirus ( National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)
- A Remote/Autonomous Robot Operation Technology for Laboratory of Infectious Diseases ( National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology )
Detecting and treating infection by AI
Protein analysis, medicine search assessment
- Participation in CASP_Commons ROUND 2 - 2020 (SARS-2-CoV targets) ( National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology )
- Structure prediction and their quality assessment of SARS-2-CoV proteins (Tokyo Tech)
- Rapid safety prediction of antiviral drugs using machine learning with ES/iPS cells (Kyoto University)
- Repositioning of COVID-19 drug using tensor decomposition based unsupervised feature extraction ( CHUO UNIVERSITY )
Knowledge acquisition and search
Inspection support
Support for emergency medical treatment, optimized plan
- Accurate decision of emergency medical services using Graph Neural Networks (Tokyo Tech)
- Plans for transportation with minimum travel distance to prevent medical collapse(challenge1) (Tohoku Univ.)
- Resource Allocation Plan for More Accurate Patient Counting (challenge2)（Tohoku Univ.)
- Plan for Hospital/accommodation location according to the stage of patient symptoms and transportation plan of goods (challenge3) (Tohoku Univ.)
- Plan to close public facilities and commercial facilities and resume operations after requesting leave (challenge4) (Tohoku Univ.)
Transmission suppression of infection disease, grasping human social behavior by AI
Epidemiology and infection prediction
- Relationship between COVID-19 death toll doubling time and national BCG vaccination policy(Tokyo Tech)
- Research on centrality of temporal networks for preventing disease spread (Tokyo Tech)
- The K indicator epidemic model follows the Gompertz curve (Tokyo Tech)
Infection simulation
- COVID-19 Transmission Simulation Across Japan with Human Mobility Data ( National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology )
- Agent-based simulation for propagation of infection with social networks of people (Kyushu University)
- COVID-19 Pandemic AI Prediction Using Graph Theory (Tohoku Univ.)
Behavior grasping, behavior modification
Social behavior analysis
↑AI usage for remote circumstance enhancement
Education, medical care, nursing care, health and so on
- Estimation of learner's attentional states with AI analyses of face and body images (Tohoku University)
- Improvement of home remote health maintenance and promotion environment by AI service system (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)
Telework, busines
- Augmented Telework -Technologies for a New Workstyle in a Post-Corona Society ( National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology )
- Development of a remote environment for experience sharing using an AI service system ( National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology )
- Realization of acoustic telework environment for intellectual activity (Tohoku University)
- Dynamic Haptic User Interface AI for Realistic Room-scale VR World (Tohoku University)
- Formulation of office/remote work schedule with communication opportunities (Challenge 5)(Tohoku University)
Robot, remote circumstance enhancement
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