Chandigarh: Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) in Chandigarh is researching the application of Artificial Intelligence/ Machine Learning algorithms which are reported to help in predicting critical events such as mortality, length of ICU stay, etc.
The Indian Express reports that Prof GD Puri, Dean (Academics) and Head, Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, and his team, led by Dr Rajarajan Ganesan are reportedly making inroads into the world of AI/ML in medicine with the support of the cardiothoracic vascular surgery team under Dr Shyam Kumar Singh Thingnam and Dr Nitin Auluck’s section at IIT, Ropar.
Further, there is an interdisciplinary team who are working under their guidance to develop a predictive platform along with the existing Anesthesia Information and Management System (AIMS) to aid the decision-making process. This team comprises Sushant Konar, a PhD scholar and an Indian Council of Medical Research-sponsored research fellow under Dr Puri. An engineer by training, Konar is currently working on advanced data science applications in medicine.
AIMS, which is already deployed and functional in the four cardiothoracic vascular surgery operation theatres at the Advanced Cardiac Centre of the Institute, would be able to better utilize the resources and predict adverse outcome probabilities by promoting enhanced cardiac care post-surgery with the help of the new technology.
Recently, a copyright application has been filed for a software program capable of automatically extracting relevant data from patient reports, which are pivotal to capturing vital patient data. Along with that, with an eye on future and advanced applications, a foundation is being laid to utilize supercomputing resources to address the computational needs of medical applications.
A recent grant received under the ambit of the National Supercomputing Mission aims at developing and implementing software technologies enabling such cardiac applications with limitless potential. The access to PARAM Yukti, a supercomputer installed at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), is reported to be the first step towards pushing new boundaries in advanced data-driven medical research, reports the Indian Express.
Prof. Puri said, “We are committed to the call of Digital India and Make in India. We would boldly endeavour to break the boundaries of various disciplines and venture into a new interdisciplinary future.”
Source: medicaldialogues.in
