Biography and Research Focus

Mr. Prajat Paul is currently a Doctoral Student at the Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering at Kyushu University, Japan. He pursued his undergraduate education at the National Institute of Technology Durgapur (India), majoring in Electronics and Communication Engineering under the ICCR scholarship provided by the Government of India. His current research endeavors at the SocialTech Lab are being supported by the Monbukagakusho (MEXT) Scholarship funded by the Government of Japan.

Mr. Paul’s research aims to explore the implementation of a speech-based healthcare information extraction system as a supplementary module of the conventional Electronic Health Record (EHR) system. Focusing on low-resource languages (LRLs), specifically Bangla, this system aims to assist people with text illiteracy by extracting and classifying important medical information from spoken language. The goal is to create more comprehensive EHRs, leading to improved healthcare efficiency and offering doctors predictive support for clinical decision-making.

Research Objective:
1. Observe the current status and efficiency of existing ASR tools and the reasons that affect their performance for Low-Resource Languages (LRL)
2. Extract information from the Doctor-Patient Conversation and assess its usability in storing
3. Ideate a medical pre-consultation AI tool that can retrieve Chief Complaint (CC) and initiate the process of receiving healthcare with minimal human intervention requirements