Hui Ying Lee

Abstract The rising incidence of oral cancer and associated poor prognosis, primarily due to delayed diagnosis, highlight the urgent need for artificial intelligence tools in clinical detection. However, efforts in this regard are hampered by the lack of large and ethnically heterogenous image datasets of oral lesions with clinically validated diagnoses. To address this gap, oral mucosa images captured with mobile device cameras were collected from cohorts spanning five countries.

The recent coup in Myanmar is a chance to let the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ way of quiet diplomacy do its work. There has been criticism of ASEAN for not doing more to condemn the military takeover and subsequent crackdown, leaving some analysts to question whether it is an organisation that prefers to “sit back, and wait to see if the military crushes the protest movement, and then resume business as usual”.