Advancing Infectious Disease Practice Through Technology and Innovation

Infection Prevention and Epidemiology Symposium
Advancing Infectious Disease Practice Through Technology and Innovation

Date: 20 Sep 2025, Saturday | Time: 1115 - 1245 | Track Type: Symposium | Venue: L2-S1, Level 2, Academia

The rapid evolution of technology is revolutionizing the way infectious diseases are being monitored, detected and treated. This symposium will explore cutting-edge innovations spanning diagnostics and therapeutics to surveillance and disease registry collation. By integrating AI, electronic health data and advanced imaging, these new tools are reshaping how infectious disease practice is being carried out today.

The session will address the scope of technology and innovation driven work, from surveillance to therapeutics for infectious diseases. We will give an overview for available innovation and technological advances in infectious disease and prevention work in the literature and showcase 3 examples of current projects under the SingHealth umbrella.

Surveillance and healthcare associated infection risk prediction - 4D-DOSS (4D Disease Outbreak Surveillance System) that utilizes a digital twin to perform contact tracing, outbreak mapping and visualization to aid in interventions to mitigate disease spread. Here we can see how real-time disease surveillance can be utilized through various use cases including CT image andreport based AI assisted surveillance.

Diagnostics - Ring-enhancing brain lesions are challenging to diagnose and may require invasive brain biopsies. Following this we show how the development of a radiomic model can aid in differentiating infection from malignancy to complement current clinical diagnostic work.

Clinical decision support for therapeutics - We will also introduce the Augmented Intelligence in Infectious Diseases (AI2D) that is a solution developed and led by Division of Pharmacy to prescribe personalized antibiotic regimens for patients. 

TOPIC 1:
Digital Technologies in Infectious Disease Diagnostics, Therapeutics and Surveillance Epidemiology
Speaker: Ms Shalvi Arora

TOPIC 2:
4D-Disease Outbreak Surveillance System (4D-DOSS) - Use of Digital Twin Technology to Perform Contact Tracing, Outbreak Mapping and Visualization to Mitigate Disease Spread at A Tertiary Hospital in Singapore
Speaker: Clinc Assoc Prof Chow WeiEn

TOPIC 3:
Classifying Infective from Neoplastic Ring-Enhancing Brain Lesions: 3D T1 Post-Contrast MRI Radiomics-Machine Learning Model
Speaker: Dr Sng Chong Yu Edwin

TOPIC 4:
Augmented Intelligence in Infectious Diseases: When AI Helps You Protect Your Patients from Unneeded Antibiotic Use
Speaker: Ms Tang Si Lin Sarah