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Faculty Knowledge Exchange Awards 2020

The annual Faculty Knowledge Exchange (KE) Awards recognise each Faculty’s outstanding KE accomplishment that has made demonstrable economic, social or cultural impacts to benefit the community, business/industry, or partner organisations. Results of the 2020 Faculty KE Awards are now available.

HKU statisticians develop online diagnostic system for screening COVID-19 with AI technologies based on chest CT dataset

A research team led by Professor Yin Guosheng, Head of Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at HKU, and Dr Liu Bin, Assistant Professor of Centre of Statistical Research, School of Statistics, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (currently Post-doctoral Fellow at HKU) has integrated radiography and computer vision to develop a digital online diagnostic system for COVID-19 based on chest CT scans. The diagnostic system can help to screen suspected cases of COVID-19 and evaluate the probability of one contracting the disease with 88% accuracy. The research team at HKU has designed a Lesion-Attention Deep Neural Network (LA-DNN) model based on the CT images. Leveraging on text reports from 760 research papers, the research team further analysed and pinpointed five different lesions in association with COVID-19 and identified each confirmed patient with at least one or more of the five lesions. These five lesions are the distinctive features that differentiate COVID-19 from general pneumonia or other lung diseases. Professor Yin and Dr Liu hope that medical staff can make use of the diagnostic system and share patients’ image data to initiate collaborative research and accommodate the urgent demands for COVID-19 testing.

Tips on Sustainable Psychological Health

The recent events in Hong Kong have given rise to unprecedented challenges to general psychological wellbeing. Professor Tatia Lee, Head of HKU Department of Psychology, and her clinical psychology and educational psychology colleagues, have prepared five short videos, each of which contains useful insight and tips for protecting and promoting psychological wellbeing. A special topic will be presented each week starting from May 29, 2020.

Jockey Club Lab for Cultural Diversity Study launches multi-lingual booklet and documentary video and video highlight of Human Library cum Concert

The Jockey Club Lab for Cultural Diversity Study (JCLCDS) produced a multi-lingual booklet entitled “Youth in Transition: Growing up experiences of the ethnic minority youth in Hong Kong”. The booklet reports on selected stories of youth and young adults from the longitudinal and oral history studies between the ages of 18 and 33 with family heritage in South or Southeast Asia. The booklet aims to promote a better public understanding of youth transitions to adulthood and challenge some of the existing stereotypes of ethnic minority communities in Hong Kong. JCLCDS has also produced a set of documentary video and event video highlights of a Human Library-cum-Concert held on June 2, 2019, and commissioned a documentary by an ethnic minority videographer under the Project’s Human Library Programme. The booklet and videos have been made available on the Project website. JCLCDS, funded by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust and co-created by the HKU Faculty of Social Sciences, is a component under the C-for-Chinese@JC initiative.

HKU launches mindfulness resources package to support HKDSE students

Jockey Club “Peace and Awareness” Mindfulness Culture in Schools Initiative (JC PandA), a project organised by the Faculty of Social Sciences in HKU, has launched ‘Mindfulness in the Face of Academic Stress’ resources package to encourage HKDSE candidates and students to create a mindful space amidst the epidemic, so as to better adjust their emotions for their mental well-being. This package is a follow-up of an earlier resources package, ‘Mindfulness in the Time of Coronavirus Epidemic’, that supports the general public in this difficult time.