The finals of a national competition on artificial intelligence-assisted medical image recognition kicked off Thursday in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, with 66 teams competing to demonstrate how AI can improve the field and support healthcare insurance management.
The competition features eight tracks covering kidney and lung diseases, breast cancer, and other ailments.
Sixty-five teams came from Hong Kong, Macao and abroad, with the rest coming from 30 provincial-level regions on the Chinese mainland.
The finals will conclude on Friday, with an awards ceremony scheduled for Nov 5 in Nanning.
Jointly hosted by the National Healthcare Security Administration and the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous regional government, the competition aims to promote the practical application of AI technologies in healthcare insurance, establish technical standards and support innovation in medical imaging.