Chosun University-KT Join Hands to Build Dementia Overcoming Platform

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Yoon Jamin] Chosun University (President Min Young-don) and KT (CEO Koo Hyun-mo) have joined hands to overcome dementia.

On the 20th, according to Chosun University, the Gwangju Dementia Cohort Research Group (Director Lee Gun-ho) signed a business agreement with KT to build a dementia overcoming platform based on artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud infrastructure.

The Gwangju Dementia Cohort Research Group possesses Asia's largest dementia full-cycle tracking cohort database (DB), and KT has the largest number of data centers in Korea and was the first to obtain public cloud security certification.

Through this agreement, both parties agreed to cooperate by integrating dementia research data and analysis systems into a cloud platform for researchers to utilize.

Although the Gwangju Dementia Cohort Research Group has opened its database through joint research with numerous researchers, there were limitations due to system overload and information protection issues.

This agreement is expected to significantly contribute to activating joint dementia research by resolving the constraints the Gwangju Dementia Cohort Research Group has faced.

The detailed agreement includes ▲ provision of KT cloud infrastructure and technical cooperation for the successful promotion of dementia overcoming research and development projects ▲ cooperation in developing AI technology for dementia prediction and early diagnosis ▲ cooperation in developing a mobile dementia prevention and management platform ▲ provision of various resources and technical exchanges necessary for the above cooperation.

Lee Gun-ho, Director of the Gwangju Dementia Cohort Research Group at Chosun University, said, “Through this agreement, by jointly developing a cloud-based DB platform using Asia's largest big data in the dementia field, it will be an opportunity to lead AI technology in the biohealth sector to overcome dementia, which is rapidly emerging as a global challenge.”

Yoon Dong-sik, Executive Director of KT Cloud & DX Business Group, stated, “KT meets the standards for electronic medical record preservation and management, has obtained medical information protection system certification (ISO27799), and has been striving to revitalize the cloud-based medical industry. We will continue to cooperate to safely provide medical data necessary for the medical and bio fields through KT cloud infrastructure.”

Meanwhile, the Gwangju Dementia Cohort Research Group at Chosun University developed ‘NeuroEye,’ the world's first dementia prediction medical device applying a Korean standard brain map and brain image analysis algorithm in 2018. It received medical device certification approval from the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety and was selected as one of the ‘Top 10 Science and Technology News of the Year’ by the Korea Federation of Science and Technology Societies.

Additionally, the research group recently published a study in an international academic journal showing that East Asians are more vulnerable to dementia caused by the ApoE gene than Westerners. They also built a big data set for dementia research and signed a 5-year research funding agreement worth approximately 14 billion KRW with the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) last November, becoming a major issue in the medical community.

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