China-Pakistan AI medical diagnosis lab put into operation.

BEIJING -- A China-Pakistan joint Artificial Intelligence (AI) medical diagnosis lab has started working here in the Akbar Niazi Teaching Hospital, Islamabad and it will provide free cervical cancer screening to 10,000 Pakistani women in its first phase of operation.

"It can also be used in the early diagnosis of other high-incidence of clinical tumors, such as breast cancer, gastric cancer, oral cancer, etc.," said the project lead from Landing Med, a Chinese medical technology company that provided three cervical cancer screening devices along with 5,000 sets of supporting consumable items to Pakistan last December for the lab construction.

Different from a traditional clinical procedure where patients have to visit the hospital several times for specimen collection, report analysis, and treatment, the AI-powered lab streamlined the operation by processing the specimen, scanning the slides and uploading them to the 5G cloud platform. Once data upload is complete, a medical team in China can make a diagnosis remotely and a report can be generated in about 5 minutes.

Up to now, the service has been available to surrounding residents after trial diagnosis for the hospital staff proved efficient and reliable, CEN reported on...