AI Ethics

The Pericardium/Aorta Segmentation and Cardiovascular Risk Prediction AI Total Solution Model, HeaortaNet, is a deep learning model based on UNet and attention gate, and had been trained by >70,000 axial images with verified annotations of the pericardium and aorta. It shortens the time for data processing from 60 minutes, by manual segmentation of both pericardium and aorta, to 0.4 seconds. The segmentation accuracy is 94.8% for the pericardium, and 91.6% for the aorta. The applicability of HeaortaNet had been demonstrated by analyzing the non-contrast chest CT scans (>5,000 cases) deposited in the mega-image bank of National Health Insurance Databank.

e propose an AI dynamics drug repurposing platform applicate on COVID-19. This platform analyzed a large number of structures of SARS-CoV, MERS, and cross-species coronavirus 3CL protease-ligand complexes to construct uncovering six flexible active site conformations and pharmacophore clusters for SARS-CoV-2 3CL protease screening all FDA drugs and found four inhibitors within three months. Among them, JM206 had even demonstrated ten times better efficacy than Remdesivir in-vitro assay and also show the effect on the in-vivo hamster model to alleviate the symptoms caused by COVID-19.

Taiwan was formerly the Shrimp Capital of the World. With the changing of the timesincreasingly updated technology, AI smart farming is the new milestone for Taiwan’s agriculturefisheries.

AI農情調查之UAV群眾協作平台後台支援自動鑲嵌建模，更具備四項突破技術：(1)巨量影像格化技術；(2)平行運算技術；(3)任務規格標準化；(4)UAV任務媒合。致力於打造空中UBER協作服務，未來能應用於農作物分佈調查、大範圍災情調查、農業保險、農地違法使用調查與休耕補助調查等面向。

This integrated research project follows the Taiwan's 2030 Science & Technology Vision and takes LOHAS community and inclusive technology as the major research direction. We aim to develop trustable AI technologies, and introduce them to future smart services. That will realize the development of human-centric smart technology, and strengthen the governance and application of emerging technologies. The integrated project consists of 7 sub-projects led by PIs from National Taiwan University, National Tsing-Hua Universiy and Academia Sinica and composed of top AI technological teams. These sub-projects are divided into 3 clusters, including machine learning (sub-projects 1 and 2), computer vision (sub-projects 3 and 4), and human-centric computing (sub-projects 5, 6 and 7). We will deal with the issues of bias, fairness, transparency, explainability, traceability, and so on, from the aspects of data collection, technology, and application landing. Each sub-project will implement specific smart services to reflect the benefits and practical applications of the developed technologies. The NTU Joint Research Center for AI Technology and All Vista Healthcare, an AI Innovation Research Center supported by MOST, is responsible for management, planning, and execution of the integrated research project. We will propose a plan that can be generalized and applied to the intelligent service industry.

As artificial intelligence rapidly develops and enhances human’s quality of life, another cause for concern is the dangers and possible threats to humanity. “Moral judgement” will be a big issue that needs to be addressed as these intelligent machines become more and more prevalent in society. As with any new technologies, the topic of applied ethics often arises. So, the extension of that is AI ethics issues.

Quote:br / “It is worth giving up some things because of dream pursuing” Professor SHOU-DE, LIN  at the department of computer scienceInformation Engineering in National Taiwan University, Chief Machine Learning Scientist in Appier, said “An escape from comfort zone to seek new challenges makes my life become more colorful.”br /  br / Content:br /  br / Given qualified for being as the freshman of National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Professor Lin chose the department of electrical engineering in NTU as the first priority in Joint College Entrance Examination (JCEE). Though the undergraduate education  did not cultivate him the passion on the field of electrical engineering, Professor Lin said, however, he was still recommended for further study at the graduate institute of electronics engineering in NTU due to his talentsoutstanding academic performance.

Assisted by in-house AI deep compression toolchain (ezLabel, ezModel, ezQUANT, ezHybrid-M), the proposed technology supports automatic AI model design and optimization with the integrated performance of 120x model size reduction and 70x power reduction in 2D CNN model, and develops a world-first 1/2/4/8-bit CNN model realized by the developed high efficiency Hybrid fixed point CNN NPU (Hybrid-NPU), which has been verified in Xilinx ZCU102 FPGA and achieves the performance up to 2.5 TOPS(8-b)/ 20TOPS(1-b)＠28nm technology running at 550MHz and 4TOPS/W energy efficiency.

As we age, our memory also gradually begin deteriorating. At what point should one seek out a consultation with a doctor? Statistics estimate that worldwide, every 3 seconds someone experiences dementia.

As artificial intelligence rapidly developsenhances human’s quality of life, another cause for concern is the dangerspossible threats to humanity. “Moral judgement” will be a big issue that needs to be addressed as these intelligent machines become moremore prevalent in society. As with any new technologies, the topic of applied ethics often arises. So, the extension of that is AI ethics issues.

With the rapid advancement of artificial intelligenceIoT, many solutions have been successfully implemented. However, for very large biomedical image computations, such as MRI’s, the deep learning/ training will be a lot more time consuming.

This project collaborates with the international team to collect a very large-scale Chinese emotional corpus. In terms of technology, the fairness of speech emotion recognition is also discussed to solve social issues that may be encountered regarding the usability of emotion recognition. Among them, it is found that the database annotations are all labeled with the unfair perspective of men and women, which leads to biases in the trained model. In order to solve this problem, there have been preliminary achievements in the technological development of fairness, and will be submitted in the near future.

The dialogue system is the main subsystem of the visually impaired navigation system, which provides destinations for the navigation system through multiple dialogues. We use the knowledge graph as the basis for reasoning. In terms of close-range navigation, deep learning technology is used to develop RGB camera detection depth algorithm, indoor semantic cutting algorithm, integrated detection depth estimation and indoor semantic cutting in indoor obstacle avoidance, etc. The whole system uses the CellS software design framework to integrate distributed AIoT systems.

This project goes on developing embedded AI deep learning technology focus on the ADAS/Self-driving applications. We develop the technology from five aspects, including automatic object labeling toollabeled datasets, deep learning softwarehardware technology development, various ADAS/Self-driving object detectionbehavior prediction technology, self-driving control technology as well as virtual simulation environment establishment for ADAS/Self-driving applications.

This project goes on developing embedded AI deep learning technology focus on the ADAS/Self-driving applications. We develop the technology from five aspects, including automatic object labeling toollabeled datasets, deep learning softwarehardware technology development, various ADAS/Self-driving object detectionbehavior prediction technology, self-driving control technology as well as virtual simulation environment establishment for ADAS/Self-driving applications.

AI is applied to assist data cleaning and cross-database authority control of names and institutions in the bibliographic materials such as patents, papers and research projects.

If you experience symptoms such as difficulty hearing, frequent headaches, loss of balance, deteriorating hearing, etc., it might be wise to check if you have acoustic neuroma. Because symptoms are similar to other common ear issues, it isn’t always detected. Vestibular schwannoma is a benign tumor with a slow growth rate, however as it grows and affects surrounding nerves it may have side effects that could possibly be fatal if not addressed.

The liver is a silent organ, yet it affects the health of many. In Taiwan, there are over 10,000 deaths annually due to chronic liver
disease, cirrhosis and liver cancer. Liver cancer is currently the second leading cancer in Taiwan.

Did you know that Tuberculosis is still a highly infectious disease affecting Taiwan and is one of the top 10 causes of death worldwide? TB is an airborne illness that can be contracted by breathing in germs. Early TB detection greatly reduces the risk of spreading the illness.

A famous commercial ad stated: “If the liver is unwell, life becomes black and white.” Those who have seen this are reminded to take good care of the liver, however liver disease is still quite prevalent in Taiwan. 13,000 deaths each year are due to some form of liver disease. Liver cancer is the 2nd leading cause of death in Taiwan and chronic liver disease & cirrhosis are the 9th leading cause of death.

div style="text-align: justify"According to the statistics of World Health Organization (WHO) in 2018, Chronic Obstruction Pulmonary Disease (COPD) has killed 3 million peoplebecome the 3rd place among the top 10 leading causes of death in the world, which means one person dies for this fatal disease every 10 seconds. In Taiwan,chronic lower respiratory disease is at the 7th place among the top 10 leading cause of death. There are over 5000 people died for obstructive pulmonary every year.

This project aims to develops a completely manufacturing flexible decision framework by applying big data analytics and AI techniques that integrates data from different decision-making units such as APC, APS, capacity planning, and inventory management planning to increase the decision quality and resilient capability in uncertain risks based on the perspective of factory operation.

Many well-known celebrities in Taiwan have passed away from colorectal cancer in recent years, putting it in the spotlightraising more awareness towards detectionprevention. This type of cancer is difficult to diagnose during early stages. Often time it’s already in stage 3 when symptoms surface.

We often hear the saying that laughter is the best medicine. The insertion of humor into situations can reduce stress, help with
nerves, and even de-escalate tense situations. Have you ever imagined a time when robots would be able to be humorous and
use words to make you laugh?

To develop an AI model that doctors trustthat generalizes to as many hospitals as possible, NVIDIAMass General Brigham embarked on an initiative called strongEXAM/strong (strongE/strongMR CstrongX/strongR strongA/strongI strongM/strongodel) the largest, most diverse federated learning initiative with 20 hospitalsresearch institutions from around the world. In just two weeks, the global collaboration achieved a model with .94 area under the curve (with an AUC goal of 1.0), resulting in excellent prediction for the level of oxygen required by incoming patients.  

1. Demonstrate Virtual Manufacturing/AR/VR technology, integrate product designprocess planning processes (simultaneous engineering).2. 3D printing design system: Utillized Rhinos built-in calculation editor Grasshopperinfinite element method to generate complex lattice microstructures. The lattices model could directly transfer to all types additive manufacturing machine to fabricate the designs, allowing for rapid prototypinglattices shapes iteration.

A self-improving thermal error compensation model is established by federated learning to improve the machine tool performance under different ambient temperatures. Each machine can share and update the latest model parameter to improve the initial model from different ambient temperature variation trails, but still keep the private ambient information of each machine.

1. Demonstrate Virtual Manufacturing/AR/VR technology, integrate product designprocess planning processes (simultaneous engineering).2. 3D printing design system: Utillized Rhinos built-in calculation editor Grasshopperinfinite element method to generate complex lattice microstructures. The lattices model could directly transfer to all types additive manufacturing machine to fabricate the designs, allowing for rapid prototypinglattices shapes iteration.

ECG STEMI AI Model: In the past, most AI systems gave people the feeling of a black box and couldn't be trusted. The team designed a mechanism that allows doctors to adjust and observe the AI ​​model, so that the AI ​​model can be customized to the functions the doctor wants. We use LINE, the most commonly used communication software for doctors, to design an EKG Line Bot. Medical staff can upload an electrocardiogram to the EKG Line Bot to instantly identify whether the electrocardiogram is Stemi, so as to help doctors determine whether the patient has signs of myocardial infarction. We use this Line Bot to cooperate with doctors and ask them to communicate with the Line Bot. According to the heat map provided by the system, we can check whether it is consistent with the medical concept, and then help us correct the accuracy of our model. The system will train the correct data again.

Textual Advertisement Generator: Given any limited specifics of any product, AI Advertisement Producer can automatically generate tons of top-quality descriptions and advertisements for the product in just one second. And not just one copy is produced. With deep learning and natural language processing technologies learned from millions of existing samples, our AI model can produce various styles of advertisements at the same time for users to select. It will be a big helper or a virtual brainstorming partner for any brands or advertisers to create their advertisements.