Singapore, May 26 -- Fujitsu Limited and Tokai National Higher Education and Research System (THERS) have announced the successful completion of field trials using generative AI to process clinical data for use in the selection of clinical trial participants. The effort aims to address the issue 'drug loss' in Japan, i.e., a lack of availability of drugs used overseas due to stringent local approval requirements.

In a clinical setting patient data can be broadly seperated into structured data, i.e., organized and quantifiable data such as vital signs and lab results, and unstructured data, i.e., data that lacks a predefined format such as doctors' notes. Structuring unstructured clinical data has traditionally been a time-consuming manua...