Alibaba Cloud Offers AI, Cloud Services to Help Battle COVID-19 Globally
March 19 2020 - 12:24AM
Business Wire
Alibaba Cloud, DAMO Academy and DingTalk
technologies available to medical personnel
Alibaba Cloud, the data intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group,
said today it has offered medical personnel around the world
advanced cloud-based technology applications in the fight against
the COVID-19 pandemic.
The artificial intelligence-enhanced innovations are based on
learnings and insights garnered during the initial outbreak of the
virus.
The series of cloud-native anti-coronavirus solutions stem from
joint efforts of Alibaba Cloud’s solution experts, scientists and
researchers from Alibaba DAMO Academy and the technical team at
DingTalk, one of the platforms UNESCO has tabbed as facilitating
distance learning during the coronavirus outbreak.
While DingTalk might be better-known for supporting more than
120 million students across China with their live-streamed online
classes, the team has taken it up a notch to launch DingTalk’s
International Medical Expert Communication Platform, hosted on
Alibaba Cloud. It provides a means of free communication for
medical workers all over the world to directly contact doctors from
medical institutions such as the First Affiliated Hospital of
Zhejiang University and others in China, who have been on the
frontline of the COVID-19 battle.
Through video conferencing and real-time AI translation into 11
languages (Arabic, Bahasa, Chinese, English, French, Japanese,
Russian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese), Alibaba Cloud
aims to build a virtual community, inviting Chinese doctors to
share their experiences and answer questions from global peers.
From Alibaba DAMO Academy, a global research initiative by
Alibaba, three proven solutions are being made available via free
trial for medical professionals and research institutes worldwide.
Alibaba Cloud will work with local partners to deploy relevant
services and solutions in accordance with local laws and
regulations.
Epidemic Prediction Solution models epidemic
characteristics of COVID-19 in a particular region, providing
estimates of size, peak time and duration of the epidemic, as well
as the spreading trends under three conditions - optimistic,
neutral, and pessimistic. Based on machine learning, the algorithm
was already tested on 31 provincial data in China and averaged 98%
accuracy. It can serve as a reference to policymakers and medical
researchers on prevention and control measures, medical resource
allocation and travel advisories.
CT Image Analytics Solution is a CT image analytics
technology service that can significantly improve testing accuracy
and detection efficiency for diagnosing COVID-19. With
deep-learning algorithms trained by data in China, the trained
model can predict the probability of different pneumonia types,
including the variety associated with COVID-19. It also performs
computations of the proportion of lesions and the affected volume
ratio to the entire lungs, by using the lung segmentation method.
The whole test takes about 3 to 4 seconds to run and 15 to 16
seconds of transmission time, making it nearly 60 times faster than
human detection. More than 160 hospitals in China are currently
using the solution.
Genome Sequencing for Coronavirus Diagnostic Solution, an
AI algorithm from Alibaba DAMO Academy and running on Alibaba
Cloud, is a virus genome sequencing solution for coronavirus
analytics, including viral genetic data screening, evolutionary
analysis, protein structure analysis, and diagnostic reporting. It
can complete the diagnosis of new coronavirus within 14 hours,
which is five times faster than other available sequencing
solutions in China. It can screen more than 20 people
simultaneously, making the averaged time for each sample just
around half an hour, much shorter than the normal two hours with
the PCR method. The solution helps disease control centers,
hospitals and clinics, and laboratories to address challenges such
as insufficient nucleic acid detection capacity, high
false-negative rates of the PCR method, and possible virus
mutations.
Supporting advanced innovations during emergencies like COVID-19
requires extremely scalable supercomputing power. For this, Alibaba
Cloud offers Elastic High-Performance Computing (E-HPC) Solution
for Life Sciences, a cloud-native high-performance computing
cluster solution designed for researchers working on life sciences
applications, especially for Computational-Driven-Drug-Design
(CDDD) and AI-Driven-Drug-Design (AIDDD). The solution already
supports 20 research groups in China. For example, the intelligent
CT diagnostic system on COVID-19 pneumonia developed by Tsinghua
University can complete diagnosing in 10 seconds, and the
performance of gene assembly by Sun Yat-sen University is
accelerated by 25% utilizing the solution. Alibaba Cloud has also
partnered with Global Health Drug Discovery Institute (GHDDI) in
Beijing to launch an AI-driven-drug-discovery platform based on
E-HPC.
For those looking to learn more about key lessons and experience
from doctors and other medical personnel at the First Affiliated
Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine (FAHZU), the Jack
Ma Foundation and Alibaba Foundation have also shared a handbook
from the medical personnel covering what they’ve learned every step
of the way, from screening to diagnosis and treatment of patients
who contracted COVID-19. Medical personnel can download the
handbook at https://covid-19.alibabacloud.com/.
For more information about the above solutions available for
global medical communities and businesses, please visit:
https://www.alibabacloud.com/campaign/supports-your-business-anytime
Notes to the editors
The information in this press release should not be interpreted
as offering medical advice or diagnostics, which should be given
exclusively by authorized medical professionals in relevant
jurisdiction. All data referred to are those as of writing of this
summary, and Alibaba Cloud explicitly disclaim any warranty for
accuracy or performance.
About Alibaba Cloud
Established in 2009, Alibaba Cloud (www.alibabacloud.com), the
data intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, is among the world’s
top three IaaS providers, according to Gartner. It is also the
largest provider of public cloud services in China, according to
IDC. Alibaba Cloud provides a comprehensive suite of cloud
computing services to businesses worldwide, including merchants
doing business on Alibaba Group marketplaces, start-ups,
corporations and public services. Alibaba Cloud is the official
Cloud Services Partner of the International Olympic Committee.
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