CU Box Partners with Catholic University to Enter AI Medical Diagnosis Field

CUBox, an artificial intelligence (AI) video recognition specialist company, announced on the 19th that it has signed a joint research and development contract for an ‘AI Model for Diagnosing Middle Ear Diseases’ with the Catholic University Catholic Medical Center (hereinafter CMC), marking its full-scale entry into the AI medical diagnosis field.

CUBox will participate in developing an AI diagnostic model for middle ear diseases using video image data in collaboration with the Information Fusion Promotion Institute of Catholic Medical Center. CMC will provide high-quality medical big data and professional medical personnel. Based on this joint development, the two institutions will jointly plan and develop medical services utilizing AI models. They plan to continuously expand AI medical business by jointly discovering applicable fields related to medical AI, which is still in its early stages in Korea.

CUBox plans to acquire a sufficient amount of eardrum image data through endoscopy and develop an AI middle ear disease diagnostic model to be provided as a clinical support tool. High accuracy diagnostic model development is expected based on the high-quality medical big data possessed by CMC.

According to the health insurance statistics announced in July 2023 by the National Health Insurance Service and the Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service, the proportion of otolaryngology specialists in local hospitals is about 23%, which is lower than that in large cities such as Seoul, Gyeonggi, and metropolitan cities, indicating a poor situation. Utilizing the AI middle ear disease diagnostic model is expected to be highly effective as it enables accurate diagnosis of middle ear diseases even in local hospitals lacking otolaryngology specialists.

Nam Woonsung, CEO of CUBox, said, “We are confident in improving diagnostic accuracy by developing an AI middle ear disease diagnostic model based on our outstanding AI research and development (R&D) capabilities and CMC’s largest-scale domestic data and diagnostic know-how.” He added, “Through this collaboration, we will actively expand our medical AI business with Catholic Medical Center in the future.”

Kim Daejin, Director of the Information Fusion Promotion Institute, stated, “By combining CMC’s advanced medical infrastructure and CUBox’s AI video recognition technology, we will lead the medical AI service sector at the world’s highest level beyond Korea.”

Meanwhile, CUBox has focused on developing facial recognition-related solutions and recently expanded its business to object recognition, currently operating new businesses such as 3D X-ray and order-picking robots. The company is expanding its business into various industries, including the digital healthcare sector.

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