Momentum Contrastive Learning for Few-Shot COVID-19 Diagnosis from Chest CT Images

Understand

The current pandemic, caused by the outbreak of a novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in December 2019, has led to a global emergency that has significantly impacted economies, healthcare systems and personal wellbeing all around the world.

• Controlling the rapidly evolving disease requires highly sensitive and specific diagnostics.
• While real-time RT-PCR is the most commonly used, these can take up to 8 hours, and require significant effort from healthcare professionals.
• As such, there is a critical need for a quick and automatic diagnostic system.