Tencent Miying can help diagnose early-stage esophageal and lung cancer, and diabetic retinopathy. /Photo via Tencent Miying
Tencent: Medical diagnosis
Tencent, the company behind WeChat, is known for its successes on social media and online gaming.
Surprisingly, its focus as a member of China's AI "national team" is medical diagnosis.
Named Tencent Miying (Tencent image searcher), the medical imaging product can help diagnose early-stage esophageal and lung cancer, and diabetic retinopathy.
With hundreds of thousands of images of endoscope screening and deep learning, the system is trained to detect signs of esophageal cancer.
According to Tencent, endoscope screening using the product takes less than four seconds and can achieve an accuracy rate of 90 percent.
Since its launch in August, the company has been working with more than ten first-class hospitals to build AI labs and reached intention agreements with more than 100 hospitals across the country.
Screening of esophageal and lung cancer and diabetic retinopathy has already entered the clinical stage, Xinhua reported.
