“…The medical field is no exception, and many AI-powered medical devices have been developed and are now being applied clinically [ 15 ]. In medical research, AI has been introduced into various tasks, including medical image analysis, such as radiological image analysis, endoscopic image analysis, and pathological image association analysis; omics analysis such as genome analysis, epigenome analysis, and proteome analysis; and natural language processing for drug discovery, electronic medical record information, and literature search [ 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 ]. Importantly, research on COVID-19 is being conducted worldwide, and AI is now being actively used in vaccine development, the development of new diagnostic methods, and the development of new therapeutic agents by extracting important features from vast amounts of data.…”