Held 3rd WEB Seminar with Tokyo Metropolitan Government

Research Center for Biomedical Engineering (RCBE）has begun a series of web-based medical-engineering seminars with Tokyo Metropolitan Government in order to put the research results to practical use and deepen collaboration with companies. The seminar participants are about 700 manufacturers and distributors of medical devices in Tokyo.

This time, lecturers are two young researchers from the Research Institute for Nanodevice and Bio Systems (RNBS) of Hiroshima University. The number of WEB participants on the day was 45 (12 manufacturing and sales companies, 10 manufacturing companies, 2 hospitals, 8 research institutes, 1 other, 12 people involved).

In the introduction by Director Higashi, an overview of the RNBS and two speakers were introduced. Associate Professor Tetsuji Koide gave "Real-time colorectal cancer endoscopic diagnostic system using machine learning-realization of real-time processing by co-designing of software and hardware-", and Assistant Professor Tomomi Ishikawa gave "Video Algorithm -For Microwave Breast Cancer Screening-" were given. Finally, we received a comment from Prof. Kazuo Tanishita, President of Japan Medical Engineering Manufacturing Commons. Zoom chat-function was used for the question and answer. Question were typed in chat-box during the lecture, Q and A session was more lively and accurate than the conventional lectures.

The 4th seminar will be given by Shizuoka University in December 9th.