Mizuho Nishio MD, PhD

Dr. Mizuho Nishio currently serves as a program-specific assistant professor at the Department of Radiology at Kobe University Hospital, Kobe, Japan. His research area is the application of machine learning/deep learning to medical image analysis. Recently, he has focused on the automatic diagnosis of COVID-19 using deep learning on chest X-ray images.

Dr. Nishio earned his medical degree from the Kobe University School of Medicine. He completed his radiology residency at Nishi-Kobe medical center in Kobe, where he received the Hospital’s Award for the installation of a picture archiving and communication system in the Department of Radiology. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine. After that, he served as a program-specific assistant professor at the Department of Radiology at Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine and Kyoto University Hospital.