Research

VAIPE: AI-assisted IoT-enabled smart, optimal, and Protective hEalthcare monitoring and supporting system for Vietnamese

Minh Do, Hieu Pham, Phi-Le Nguyen, Hung Nguyen, Duc Tran, My Thai

The VAIPE project aims to develop a smartphone application that uses the camera and novel AI and visual recognition methods to allow the user to easily digitalize and analyze health records, including doctor’s diagnostics and prescription, daily in-take medication, and readings of medical devices at home. The ultimate goal is to provide ordinary citizens with easy access to timely, reliable, usable, and personalized information and intelligence about their health.

Developing a unified, low-cost, self-care mobile health application for common disease screening and early detection in low-and middle-income countries

Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Minh Do, Hieu Pham et al

Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) such as cardiovascular diseases, chronic respiratory diseases, and neurodegenerative diseases kill about 41 million people every year and cause the majority of global disease burden and modality, equivalent to 74% of all deaths globally (WHO, 2022). Most of these premature deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries. Among NCDs, heart attacks and strokes account for most NCD deaths, or 17.9 million people annually, followed by chronic respiratory diseases (4.1 million). In reality, NCD diseases are often delayed or misdiagnosed, even undiagnosed (Florencia Luna et al., 2020).

SL2i: Smart Life Smart Living Intercontinental. AI by and for People

Nicolas Vuillerme, Hieu Pham and Filipe Bueno Vilela

Vheart FM: Vietnam-validated Heart Foundation Model

Maarten De Vos, Christos Chatzichristos, Phu Nguyen, Hieu Pham

Professors Pham Huy Hieu and Thai Mai Thanh from the College of Engineering & Computer Science and the VinUni-Illinois Smart Health Center at VinUniversity have received three external research fundings to develop new smart health solutions and initiate a long-term and sustainable collaboration between KU Leuven and VinUniversiy as well as between Cardiff University and VinUniversity.

Wales-Vietnam Partnerships Project: A novel wearable system for frequent and comfortable blood pressure monitoring

Nhat Pham, Hieu Pham, Thai Mai Thanh

Professors Pham Huy Hieu and Thai Mai Thanh from the College of Engineering & Computer Science and the VinUni-Illinois Smart Health Center at VinUniversity have received three external research fundings to develop new smart health solutions and initiate a long-term and sustainable collaboration between KU Leuven and VinUniversiy as well as between Cardiff University and VinUniversity.

Evaluating the Effect of Antiviral Drugs using Polarized Light Imaging and Machine Learning Approaches: The Case of Human-induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-derived Cardiomyocytes

Stephen Boppart, Marina Marjanovic, Mark Anastasio, Tran Thi Mai, Nguyen Thi Nhung, Wray Buntine, Hieu Pham

This work aims to develop a low-cost, unified machine learning-based screening tool using multimodal signals collected from smartphones/wearable devices to evaluate the risk of presenting with common, high-demanding NCDs including stroke, chronic respiratory diseases, and neurodegenerative diseases (see Figure 1). We will clinically evaluate the app for common disease screening and early detection in low-and middle-income countries. This tool can be used at home or the point of care and opens up the opportunity to bring digital healthcare solutions to millions of people across countries.

Enhancing Precision Digital Pathology with an AI-powered Platform Accelerated by Supercomputers

Ravishankar Iyer, Phuong Cao, Volodymyr Kindratenko, Minh Do, Hieu Pham et al

To accelerate the collaboration between VinUni and Illinois (UIUC) in researching novel sensing and informatics to provide widely accessible health monitoring, screening, and diagnostics for people all over the world. The VinUni-Illinois Smart Health Center “VISHC” will be formed and funded by about ten selected projects, each led by at least one faculty member from VinUni and one faculty member from Illinois. With this program, VISHC will seek to become a hub of groundbreaking collaborative research on digital health, forging vital connections among researchers, students, staff from two institutions, and external partners. This research funding aims to bring ideas and powerful innovations that positively impact healthcare for people worldwide.

From Causal Understanding of Healthy Longevity to Smart Health

Lav R. Varshney, Pablo D. Robles Granda, Minh Do, Khoa Doan, Hieu Pham, et al