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DIRECTORS

Yasutomo Nasu
Yasutomo Nasu

Affiliation

Okayama University

Position

President

Speciality

Urology

Clinical AI's Initiative

I will support the training of medical AI development personnel on a university-wide basis.

Related Link

https://cypher.okayama-u.ac.jp/member/

Masanobu Abe
Masanobu Abe

Affiliation

Okayama University

Position

Executive Director for Promotion of Digital Transformation / Vice president

Speciality

Computer Science (Voice)

Clinical AI's Initiative

Application of AI-based speech processing in medicine.

Related Link

https://www.a.cs.okayama-u.ac.jp/index

Shinichi Toyooka
Shinichi Toyooka

Affiliation

Okayama University / Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical sciences, Institute of Academic and Research / General Thoracic Surgery and Breast and Endocrinological Surgery

Position

Professor / Dean of Medical School

Speciality

Respirator Surgery / Genomic medicine

Clinical AI's Initiative

Through cross-departmental collaboration centered on medical and engineering faculties and a consortium of partner schools and companies, we aim to produce human resources who will lead the next generation of AI-based medicine and lead to the development of healthcare around the world.

Related Link

http://www.nigeka-okayama-u.jp/

Keiji Naruse
Keiji Naruse

Affiliation

Okayama University / Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical sciences, Institute of Academic and Research / Cardiovascular Physiology

Position

Professor / Dean, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Speciality

Cardiovascular Physiology

Clinical AI's Initiative

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Yoshinobu Maeda
Yoshinobu Maeda

Affiliation

Okayama University / Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical sciences, Institute of Academic and Research / Hematology, Oncology and Respiratory Medicine

Position

Professor/Hospital Director

Speciality

Hematology and Oncology

Clinical AI's Initiative

Related Link

http://ninai.med.okayama-u.ac.jp/

FULL-TIME STAFF

Maki Tanioka
Maki Tanioka

Affiliation

Okayama University / Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical sciences, Institute of Academic and Research / Clinical AI Human Resources Development Program

Position

Associate Professor

Speciality

Oncology

Clinical AI's Initiative

I will contribute to medicine by integrating the latest AI technology with ideas from the medical field.

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COORDINATORS

Toshiaki Aida
Toshiaki Aida

Affiliation

Okayama University / Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering in Health Systems, Institute of Academic and Research

Position

Lecturer

Speciality

Probabilistic information processing

Clinical AI's Initiative

Application of deep learning to image diagnosis using upper gastrointestinal endoscopy and ureteroscopy images.

Related Link

https://cypher.okayama-u.ac.jp/

Ippei Oobayashi
Ippei Oobayashi

Affiliation

Okayama University / Cyber-Physical Information Application Research Core

Position

Professor

Speciality

Applied Mathematics,Topological data analysis

Clinical AI's Initiative

Waiting for the development of mathematical methods such as visualization of medical information by topological data analysis.

Related Link

https://cypher.okayama-u.ac.jp/

Hideyuki Kanda
Hideyuki Kanda

Affiliation

Okayama University / Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical sciences, Institute of Academic and Research / Public health

Position

Professor

Speciality

Public health

Clinical AI's Initiative

I am working on an AI-based preventive medicine study on home blood pressure management and its variables in community residents.

Related Link

http://plaza.umin.ac.jp/okayamadph/

Norikazu Takahashi
Norikazu Takahashi

Affiliation

Okayama University / Environmental, Life, Natural Science and Technology, Institute of Academic and Research

Position

Professor

Speciality

Information and Mathematical Engineering

Clinical AI's Initiative

I investigate the latest AI technologies that can be applied to medicine to help improve the curriculum. I am also working on distributed learning, which allows learning without data aggregation.

Related Link

https://oasis.okayama-u.ac.jp/

Koichi Takeuchi
Koichi Takeuchi

Affiliation

Okayama University / Environmental, Life, Natural Science and Technology, Institute of Academic and Research

Position

Associate Professor

Speciality

Computer Science (Natural language processing)

Clinical AI's Initiative

Providing lectures on the basics of artificial intelligence to medical professionals.

Related Link

http://www.cl.cs.okayama-u.ac.jp/

Shuta Tomida
Shuta Tomida

Affiliation

Okayama University Hospital / Center for Comprehensive Genomic Medicine

Position

Associate Professor

Speciality

Bioinformatics

Clinical AI's Initiative

Creation of a model for evaluating the risk of metastatic recurrence, and creation of a model for estimating the primary tumor.

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Yasuyuki Nogami
Yasuyuki Nogami

Affiliation

Okayama University / Environmental, Life, Natural Science and Technology, Institute of Academic and Research

Position

Professor

Speciality

Information Security

Clinical AI's Initiative

Protecting the privacy of medical information.

Related Link

https://oasis.okayama-u.ac.jp/

Sunao Hara
Sunao Hara

Affiliation

Okayama University / Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering in Health Systems, Institute of Academic and Research

Position

Assistant Professor

Speciality

Computer Science (Voice)

Clinical AI's Initiative

Research for people with speech difficulties based on speech information processing technology.

Related Link

https://www.a.cs.okayama-u.ac.jp/~hara/

Akira Hirasawa
Akira Hirasawa

Affiliation

Okayama University / Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical sciences, Institute of Academic and Research / Clinical Genomic Medicine

Position

Professor

Speciality

Clinical genetics, Oncogenetics

Clinical AI's Initiative

I have established a multi-center prospective cohort study of hereditary tumor pathological variants, and based on the big data, I am trying to identify cancer susceptibility factors in Japanese people and to establish preemptive cancer medicine.

Related Link

https://cgm.hsc.okayama-u.ac.jp/

Ryusuke Momota
Ryusuke Momota

Affiliation

Okayama University / Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical sciences, Institute of Academic and Research / Human Morphology

Position

Assistant Professor

Speciality

Anatomy

Clinical AI's Initiative

Interaction of anatomical terms, metabolic modeling.

Related Link

http://www.okayama-u.ac.jp/user/anatomy/hm/index.html

Mizuki Morita
Mizuki Morita

Affiliation

Okayama University / Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering in Health Systems, Institute of Academic and Research

Position

Professor

Speciality

Medical Life Informatics, Medical Engineering

Clinical AI's Initiative

Analysis of clinical and biological data using machine learning, natural language processing in the medical field.

Related Link

https://www.bilab.jp/

Kenichi Morooka
Kenichi Morooka

Affiliation

Kumamoto University / Faculty of Advanced Science and Technology / Division of Biomedical Engineering
Okayama University / Part-time Lecturer

Position

Professor

Speciality

Medical image processing

Clinical AI's Initiative

I am conducting research on medical support systems using image information processing (image processing, artificial intelligence, virtual and mixed reality, etc.).

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Noriyuki Yamashita
Noriyuki Yamashita

Affiliation

Okayama University Graduate School / Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences / Center for Education in Medicine and Health Sciences

Position

Technical staff

Speciality

Computer science

Clinical AI's Initiative

Promotion of DX for family tree and development of exploratory evaluation model.

Related Link

http://cdmhe.jp/

PROFESSIONALS

Miki Ozeki
Miki Ozeki

Affiliation

Humanities and Social Sciences, Institute of Academic and Research (Economics)

Position

Associate Professor

Speciality

Social Psychology,Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

Clinical AI's Initiative

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Toshiyuki Kawazu
Toshiyuki Kawazu

Affiliation

Okayama University / Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical sciences, Institute of Academic and Research / Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology

Position

Associate Professor

Speciality

Dental Radiology

Clinical AI's Initiative

I am currently researching AI imaging diagnosis in the head and neck region.

Related Link

https://www.okayama-u.ac.jp/user/orad/

Yoshirou Kawahara
Yoshirou Kawahara

Affiliation

Okayama University / Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical sciences, Institute of Academic and Research / Practical Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Position

Professor

Speciality

Gastroenterology

Clinical AI's Initiative

Application of AI to the field of gastrointestinal endoscopy.

Related Link

http://www.okayama-gastro.com/

Keisuke Hori
Keisuke Hori

Affiliation

Tsuyama Chuo Hospital / Internal Medicine

Position

Ministers

Speciality

Gastroenterology

Clinical AI's Initiative

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PROFESSIONALS-PARTNER

Takao Kimura
Takao Kimura

Affiliation

Kimura Information Technology Co.

Position

CEO

Speciality

Medical Information Business

Clinical AI's Initiative

Development and promotion activities of AI-PHARMA, an AI drug information platform for healthcare professionals.

Related Link

https://www.k-idea.jp/

Yasutomo Hashizume
Yasutomo Hashizume

Affiliation

ASK Project Co. / Kimura Information Technology Co.

Position

CEO / CIO

Speciality

Information engineering

Clinical AI's Initiative

Development and promotion activities of AI-PHARMA, an AI drug information platform for healthcare professionals.

Related Link

https://ask-project.net/

Takuto Sako
Takuto Sako

Affiliation

H&H CONNECT Co.

Position

Director

Speciality

Medical System Development

Clinical AI's Initiative

Pre-processing of medical data cleansing, etc.

Related Link

http://www.hh-c.co.jp/

OBSERVER

Hideyuki Doi
Hideyuki Doi

Affiliation

Okayama Kyokuto Hospital

Position

Vise president

Speciality

Orthopaedic surgery

Clinical AI's Initiative

Promotion of DX within the hospital, establishment of CIO (Chief Information Officer), development and operation of hospital applications, introduction of AI medical interview, introduction of PHR system, introduction of hospital intercom.

Related Link

https://www.kyokuto.or.jp