Covid-19: AI tool predicts which coronavirus patients get deadly ‘wet lung’

A medical personnel store medical samples of patients at a ‘drive-thru’ coronavirus testing lab set up by local community centre in West Palm Beach 75 miles north of Miami. Researchers in the US and China reported they have developed an AI tool that is able to accurately predict which newly infected patients with the novel coronavirus go on to develop severe lung disease. — AFP

WASHINGTON: Researchers in the US and China reported on March 30 they have developed an artificial intelligence tool that is able to accurately predict which newly infected patients with the novel coronavirus go on to develop severe lung disease.

Once deployed, the algorithm could assist doctors in making choices about where to prioritise care in resource-stretched health care systems, said Megan Coffee, a physician and professor at New York University’s Grossman School of Medicine who co-authored a paper on the finding in the journal Computers, Materials & Continua.