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Lunit AI Used Again for Mass Screening During 2025 Hajj Season in Saudi Arabia
Lunit (KRX:328130.KQ), a leading provider of AI for cancer diagnostics and therapeutics, today announced that its AI-based chest X-ray analysis solution, Lunit INSIGHT CXR, was used again by the Saudi Government and Seha Virtual Hospital (SVH) to support large-scale screening during the 2025 Hajj season, which took place June 4–9.
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