Hospitals Deploy AI Tools to Detect COVID-19 on Chest Scans
Deep learning algorithms can diagnose, triage, and monitor coronavirus cases from lung images. Next, can they predict who will need a ventilator?
By Megan Scudellari on March 31, 2020
Over the past week, companies around the world announced a flurry of AI-based systems to detect COVID-19 on chest CT or X-ray scans. Already, these deep learning tools are being used in hospitals to screen mild cases, triage new infections, and monitor advancing disease.
AI-powered analysis of chest scans has the potential to alleviate the growing burden on radiologists, who must review and prioritize a rising number of patient chest scans each day, experts say. And in the future, the technology might help predict which patients are most likely to need a ventilator or medication, and which can be sent home.
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