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Meiji University and St. Marianna University School of Medicine held a joint research meeting on September 6 at the Center Forest, Meiji University’s Ikuta campus. This research meeting was launched by the conclusion of a comprehensive agreement between Meiji University and St. Marianna University School of Medicine in 2013 with the aim of matching the needs of the medical field with the research seeds (research seed events) of universities. This time is the eighth meeting of the joint research meeting.

President UENO Masao, Professor TAKENAKA Asako (Dean of the School of Agriculture of Meiji University, and Dr. KITAGAWA Hiroaki, the President of St. Marianna University School of Medicine, opened the session with a speech.

President UENO said, “By further strengthening the collaboration with St. Marianna University School of Medicine and further activating collaboration in various fields, I hope to develop practical and future-oriented research.”

In the first session, Professor KANEKO Hiromasa of the Department of Applied Chemistry, School of Science and Technology, gave a presentation as a case study of joint research between the two universities, entitled “Construction of a Machine Learning Model to Predict Postoperative Conditions of Tympanoplasty and Prediction of Operative Procedure by Inverse Analysis of the Model.”

In the second session, a poster session of both universities was held, which also served as a research exchange meeting. Researchers from St. Marianna University School of Medicine introduced the needs and research cases of a wide range of medical fields, including gastroenterology, cardiology and orthopedic surgery. From Meiji University, researchers related to the needs presented in advance from St. Marianna University School of Medicine introduced research cases from the perspectives of engineering, chemistry, and machine learning, and there was a lively question-and-answer session among researchers.

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