Sharing the Latest Research Achievements in Digital Healthcare and Medical AI… Advancing Collaborative Research Based on Clinical Data

Director Dong Hyun Yang of the Office for AI Innovation Support: “We Will Develop Medical AI Solutions to Provide Personalized Healthcare Services for Patients”

▲ Director Dong Hyun Yang of the Office for AI Innovation Support at Asan Medical Center explains Asan Medical Center’s data platform during the “Asan Medical Center UNIST Joint Seminar on Medical AI” held at UNIST’s Haedong Hall on June 16.

Asan Medical Center and Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) gathered to strengthen collaborative research cooperation in the field of medical artificial intelligence (AI).

The Office for AI Innovation Support of Asan Medical Center and the Graduate School of Medical Science and Engineering and Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence at UNIST held the “Asan Medical Center-UNIST Joint Seminar on Medical AI” on June 16 at UNIST’s Haedong Hall. The event was organized as a follow up to the memorandum of understanding signed in March to promote medical AI research, providing a platform for researchers from both institutions to share the latest research achievements and discuss future collaborative research initiatives based on their clinical data and AI research capabilities.

The seminar was attended by around 40 participants, including faculty members and researchers from Asan Medical Center, as well as researchers from UNIST’s Graduate School of Medical Science and UNIST AI Graduate School (AIGS), Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME), and Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Through research presentations and panel discussions on medical AI and digital healthcare, participants explored opportunities for collaboration connecting clinical practice with artificial intelligence technologies.

The event began with introductions to the institutional and research platforms of Asan Medical Center with UNIST’s Graduate School of Medical Science and AIGS. This was followed by presentations on a wide range of research topics with strong potential for clinical application, including medical AI, digital pathology, clinical data utilization, operating room and intensive care unit data analysis, and predictive modeling based on digital twin technology.

In particular, the seminar highlighted research cases combining large-scale clinical data generated in healthcare settings with artificial intelligence technologies. Participants actively discussed the clinical applicability of AI based diagnostic and predictive technologies, as well as future directions for establishing data utilization infrastructure.

During the final panel discussion, participants explored strategies for expanding research collaboration and advancing joint research initiatives between the two institutions. Researchers agreed on the importance of creating an environment that enables effective data utilization and connecting research infrastructures in the field of medical AI, emphasizing the need to establish a sustainable collaborative framework.

▲ Participants take a commemorative photo at the “Asan Medical Center UNIST Joint Seminar on Medical AI” held at UNIST’s Haedong Hall on June 16.

Asan Medical Center and UNIST are expanding collaboration in the field of medical AI based on the memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed in March. The two institutions are promoting various initiatives, including researcher exchanges, the establishment of data utilization infrastructure for medical AI research, joint use of research infrastructure, and the discovery of collaborative research projects.

In particular, Asan Medical Center is developing an Integrated Data Platform (IDP) to enhance the safe utilization of clinical data and improve research efficiency, while UNIST is strengthening its medical AI research environment based on AI supercomputing infrastructure and data science capabilities. Going forward, the two institutions plan to establish a collaborative system that enables researchers to preferentially utilize each other’s research infrastructure and expand joint research combining clinical data with AI technologies.

Director Dong Hyun Yang of the Office for AI Innovation Support at Asan Medical Center said, “This joint seminar is highly meaningful as it marks the first occasion where researchers from both institutions shared actual research achievements and infrastructure and developed concrete plans for practical collaboration following the MOU signed in March.”

He added, “By combining Asan Medical Center’s extensive clinical data with UNIST’s advanced AI technology capabilities, we will develop medical AI solutions that address challenges in healthcare settings and ultimately strive to provide patients with more accurate, safe, and personalized healthcare services.”

Dean Seungjae Baek of the Graduate School of Medical Science and Engineering at UNIST, said, “This seminar provided an opportunity to share the research capabilities and infrastructure of UNIST and Asan Medical Center and to discuss concrete possibilities for joint research in the field of medical AI.” He added, “We will expand collaboration between the two institutions to create world class medical AI research achievements by integrating UNIST’s AI technologies with Asan Medical Center’s clinical data.”