Achievements

The main objective of the activity is to present and demonstrate state of the art medical informatics applications in the area of nephrology, diabetic retinopathy, diabetes management, among others. The stated activity would comprise of a set of introductory presentations along with live demonstrations of the aforementioned applications. Medical applications included in this session would deal with patient diagnosis, treatment and monitoring. The stated activities would be beneficial for medical experts, medical researchers, medical staff and students.

Spring Lecture Series on “Machine Learning for Healthcare” is part of the Asi@Connect project Intelligent Medical Services over TEIN. The spring lecture series is related to the Work Group 1 (WG1), online education for intelligent medical services. The WG1 manages the effort to design a curriculum of ICT courses with medical specialization twice a year.

Machine Learning (ML) has played an important role in the advancement of health informatics (HI). Unlike traditional artificial intelligence techniques, ML algorithms are bottom-up approaches in which learning takes place from data in order to make decisions and predictions. These days healthcare systems deal with immense proportions of data which require intelligent techniques in order to glean insights for decision making. The main objective of this workshop is to introduce the state of the art technologies in Healthcare Informatics which include innovative AI platform, ML-based emotion recognition, user experience evaluation, and high-speed networking for enabling communication in an intelligent manner. This workshop is comprised of 4 presentations by the leading experts in the respective areas.

The main objective of this summer school is to present and demonstrate the state of the art medical informatics applications in the area of thyroid cancer, cardiology, diabetic retinopathy, diabetes management, chronic kidney disease, among others. The stated activity would comprise of a set of introductory presentations along with realtime demonstrations of the aforementioned applications. Medical applications included in this session would deal with patient diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring. These presentations would be beneficial for medical experts, medical researchers, medical staff, and students in broadening their knowledge of healthcare informatics. The Summer School was comprised of 5 presentations.

The outbound summer school 2020 is the continuation of the human exchange and capacity building activities in the umbrella of the Asi@Connect project. In this regard, the summer school is the second iteration of the activity. The main objective of the outbound summer school is to train professionals in the healthcare domain to effectively utilize clinical decision support systems (CDSS). We have designed and developed a CDSS system for low back pain diagnosis. This system is realized with the collaboration between the University of Malaya (Malaysia) and the Kyung Hee University (Korea). The summer school activity is based on two sessions. In the first session, an overview of the technology is given while in the second session a demonstration and hands-on training are given to the summer school participants.

Intelligent Medical Services over TEIN is the 3rd iteration of the workshop. Similar to previous workshops, the workshop is based on two sessions. Session-I dealt with an introduction of the AI-Doctor (an intelligent medical platform) and a digital solution for monitoring COVID-19 patients. AI-Doctor a high-level bird eye of the intelligent medical services and their under the hood technical mechanisms. Afterward, CoSMoS, a digital system for COVID-19 patients efficient monitoring is presented. The role of intelligent information systems is acknowledged in efficiently handling the patient influx while at the same time providing meaningful data analytics to the decision makers. In session-II the role of high-speed networking and cloud computing are discussed in detail along with their role in the 4th industrial revolution. Finally, the role of a decision support system for low back pain silo is discussed from a physician’s perceptive. The workshop concluded with positive feedback from the participants. Furthermore, a number of NREN representatives showed interest in joining the IMS-TEIN project.

The APAN-48 was held in Putrajaya, Malaysia from 22 July 2019 to 25 July 2019. The workshop related to the Intelligent Medical Services was held under the tutorial session. This is part of working group 3, Conferences and Workshop. The institute of consortium member countries from Malaysia, Pakistan, and South Korea have participated in this workshop. Moreover, two papers were presented in the APAN research workshop. 

The spring lecture series is related to the Work Group 1 (WG1), online education for intelligent medical services. The WG1 manages the effort to design a curriculum of ICT courses with medical specialization twice a year. We have uploaded the lecture series content on the website (http://www.ims-tein.com/courses/ict-technologies-and-health-care/). The spring lecture series consist of 5 lectures related to the ICT technologies and healthcare, which includes internet of things, machine learning, deep learning, and big data. The lectures were uploaded once a week on every Friday, starting from May 03 to May 31, 2019. This lecture series is part of the Asi@Connect project Intelligent Medical Services over TEIN. Health-care has evolved with the use of ICT for providing quality health services. This lecture series will provides the details of state of the art technologies and their role in advancement of health-care domain.

The fall lecture series is related to the Work Group 1 (WG1), online education for intelligent medical services. The WG1 manages the effort to design a curriculum of ICT courses with medical specialization twice a year. We have uploaded the lecture series content on the website (http://www.ims-tein.com/courses/medical-silo-construction/). The fall lecture series consist of 5 lectures related to the ICT technologies and healthcare, which includes topics on security and privacy in healthcare, blockchain in healthcare, silo construction methodology, silo construction tools and case study on cardiovascular silo. The lectures were uploaded once a week on every Thursday, starting from October 3rd to October 31st, 2019.

AI Doctor Summer School (Inbound):

The inbound summer school was held from Aug 19 to Aug 23, 2019 at Kyung Hee University, South Korea. This is part of working group 2, Human Resource Exchange for Summer School. The institute of consortium member countries from Malaysia and Vietnam  have participated in the inbound summer school. The emphasis was on the innovative ICT in healthcare. 

Outbound Summer School:

The outbound summer school was held from Oct 02 to Oct 03, 2019 at University of Malaya, Malaysia. This is part of working group 2, Human Resource Exchange for Summer School. The institute of consortium member countries from Malaysia have participated in the outbound summer school. The emphasis was on the innovative intelligent medical services.

  The IMS TEIN MOOC series is related to the Work Group 1 (WG1), online education for intelligent medical services. The WG1 manages the effort to design a curriculum of ICT courses with medical specialization twice a year.

We have uploaded the lecture series content on the website (http://45.248.73.70/courses/course-v1:IMSTeinCourse+IMSTein2019+IMSTein2019/course/). The IMS TEIN MOOC lecture series consist of 7 lectures related to the Case study of Software engineering in healthcare, which includes introduction of the healthcare management platform, details of the multiple layer of platform and finally the complete business scenario for healthcare management. The lectures were uploaded once a week on every Friday, starting from October 4th  to December 15th, 2019. This lecture series is part of the Asi@Connect project Intelligent Medical Services over TEIN. Health-care has evolved with the use of ICT for providing quality health services. This lecture series will provides the detail case study of the software engineering process to utilize state of the art ICT technologies and their role in the advancement of health-care domain.

In this section, we have provided the summary of all main activities such as Spring Lecture Series, APAN-48, Inbound Summer School, Outbound Summer School, Fall Lecture Series, and MOOC. We have collectively presented the overall feedback statistics, country wise distribution of subscriber/participant, and human sex ratio.

Overall Feedback statistics:

We have used Likert scale (1 to 7) for collecting the feedback. As per the standard rules, we have converted the feedback into three main categories such as Strongly Agree, Somewhat Agree, and Neither agree nor disagree, based on standard deviation, mean,  and median. For each event and activity, we have collected the feedback as discussed in the previous sections. The following figure shows the summary of the feedback statistics, where 86.67% participants were satisfied from the content while 6.67% and 6.67% provides partial and neutral responses respectively. .

Overall Country Wise Discribution Of Subscribers:

Participants from nine countries have participated either online or offline. Participants are from a diverse set of countries such as Australia, Bhutan, Pakistan, South Korea, Malaysia, Vietnam, Bangladesh, UAE, and China as shown in the following figure. Most active participation was from Pakistan, South Korea, and Malaysia in the majority of activities.

Overall Gender Ratio Participants:

The participants from different countries have attended the events either online or offline. In order to summarize, the following figure summarizes the overall gender ratio of the participants involved in the events.

According to the overall feedback statistics, the participants were very satisfied from the contents of the mentioned activities. As the contents was disseminated online, which can be accessible to the Asia Connect participants. Therefore, the participants outside the consortium countries have also appreciated the way the content was delivered with proper timeline. We have successful completed the first year of the IMS over TEIN and also prepared the plan for the next year. The overview of the timeline is presented in the following figure. We have planned 08 major activities for the year 2020, which includes APAN, lecture series, MOOC, workshops, and summer school. The events will start with the APAN-49 and ends with the fall lecture series.