KUCHING: Two academics from Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak presented their ground-breaking research during the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress held in Amsterdam from Aug 25 to 28.
The academics were from the university’s Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Science.
According to a press release by Swinburne, the ESC Congress 2023 focused on challenges and breakthroughs in the field of cardiovascular medicine and that this year’s theme of ‘Joining Forces to Protect the Heart’, served as a stage for global experts.
The study entitled ‘Deep Learning in Digital Health with ChatGPT: A Study on Efficient Code Generation’ was led by Swinburne Sarawak’s Head of School of Information and Communication Technologies and Director of Centre for Digital Futures, Professor Patrick Then and Deputy Head of the School of Information and Communication Technologies, Dr Brian Loh.
Following that, the study was unveiled at the RAI Amsterdam Digital Health Stage on Aug 26, which delved into the utilisation of artificial intelligence (AI) in digital healthcare and addressed a pressing issue in the healthcare tech arena; the need for specialised skills and expertise in AI application development.
The statement said during the unveiling, Dr Loh demonstrated how ChatGPT, a sophisticated language model developed by OpenAI, could generate fully operational programming scripts based solely on natural language inputs and the feasibility was demonstrated by a successful real-world test in echocardiogram view classification, which boasted an accuracy rate exceeding 80 per cent.
This pioneering research illustrated the potential of AI-powered code generation in digital healthcare solutions. Contributions to this research by Dr Alan Fong and Dr Ong Tiong Kiam, cardiologists from the Sarawak Heart Centre, illustrated the remarkable balance between technical innovation and practical healthcare needs.
As early as 2019, the group garnered international attention when they presented AI algorithms for echocardiogram analysis at the ESC Digital Summit in Estonia, the statement revealed.
It added that this latest work showcases a successful multidisciplinary model of success, blending expertise in cardiology and computer science and setting a new precedent for future interdisciplinary studies in healthcare technology.
