Can AI help in screening Viral and COVID-19 pneumonia?

Understand

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a pandemic disease, which has already caused thousands of causalities and infected several millions of people worldwide.

• Any technological tool enabling rapid screening of the COVID-19 infection with high accuracy can be crucially helpful to healthcare professionals.
• The main clinical tool currently in use for the diagnosis of COVID-19 is the Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), which is expensive, less-sensitive and requires specialized medical personnel.
• X-ray imaging is an easily accessible tool that can be an excellent alternative in the COVID-19 diagnosis.