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Medical Informatics Lab
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The lab rethinks healthcare in terms of the flow of information and builds new forms of medicine.

AboutAbout the lab
A new vision of medicine for the information age.
Medical informatics is a field that aims to acquire informatics knowledge and develop information technology that support the effectiveness and efficiency of medicine and healthcare.
Another goal of the lab is to interpret healthcare, a social activity of people, through the generation, transmission, transformation, storage, and use of information.
The research is carried out in real clinical settings, with faculty from informatics and medicine working together with many specialists from the hospital and the Graduate School of Medicine.
The lab accepts many graduate students from the Graduate School of Medicine and the Graduate School of Informatics, including international students.
Key terms
- Medical AI
- Medical AI: artificial intelligence used for tasks such as supporting diagnosis and predicting a patient's condition
- Machine learning
- Machine learning: a computer method that learns patterns from data in order to make predictions or classifications
- IoT
- IoT (Internet of Things): a system in which many kinds of devices are connected to the internet and exchange information
ResearchResearch themes
With the goals of creating information infrastructure, analyzing living clinical information, and realizing practical information support, the lab uses its findings to consider the future of society and institutions, and aims for a new vision of medicine in the information age.
View More ↗MembersFaculty
- ProfessorTomohiro Kuroda
- LecturerAkira Yutani
- Assistant ProfessorKazumasa Kishimoto
- Program-Specific Assistant ProfessorKeita Fukuyama
- Program-Specific ProfessorGenta Kato
- Program-Specific ProfessorGoshiro Yamamoto
- Program-Specific LecturerMasahiro Yakami
- Program-Specific LecturerLIU Chang
- Program-Specific LecturerKaori Kusuda
- Program-Specific Assistant ProfessorKoki Hasebe
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “NMCSD ARTEMIS Project (6391268)” U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Jacob L. Greenberg / Public domain (cropped)
- Research where information and medicine meet: “Figure 1 AI Tools for Medical Notes and Coding ( )” U.S. GAO / Public domain (cropped)
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