Wayne State Researcher Developing AI Tool to Predict Severe COVID-19 Cases in Children
A researcher at Detroit’s Wayne State University is developing artificial intelligence to aid in the early detection of severe SARS-CoV2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in children.
A Wayne State researcher is developing a device built on artificial intelligence that detects whether COVID-19 will become a more severe disease in child patients. // Image courtesy of Wayne State University
A researcher at Detroit’s Wayne State University is developing artificial intelligence to aid in the early detection of severe SARS-CoV2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in children.
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New AI Model for Early Detection of Severe SARS-CoV-2 Illness in Children
Written by AZoRoboticsFeb 4 2021
The impact of COVID-19 caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) on children has been less when compared to adults.
Image Credit: Wayne State University.
However, some children diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 experienced acute illnesses, such as respiratory failure and Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome (MIS-C). Almost 80% of children with MIS-C fall critically ill with a mortality rate of 2%–4%.
At present, techniques to identify the spectrum of severity of the disease and to predict which children with SARS-CoV-2 exposure will develop acute illnesses, such as MIS-C, are lacking. Hence, there is an emergent need to create a diagnostic modality to differentiate the various phenotypes of the disease and for risk stratification.
Low-dose aspirin therapy before conception and during early pregnancy may increase pregnancy chances and live births among women who have experienced one or two prior miscarriages, according to a new study.
Researchers adjusted for differences in aspirin use between women who deviated from the daily regimen and those who adhered to it, rather than looking solely at the difference in pregnancy rates between women who were randomized to aspirin versus placebo.
“This work is the first to demonstrate that starting low-dose aspirin therapy while trying to become pregnant and taking it consistently four or five days a week until birth may improve the reproductive outcomes of couples who have experienced one or two prior pregnancy losses,” says Ashley Naimi, associate professor in epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.
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DETROIT - While the number of immigrants from Arab countries to the United States has steadily increased over the past several years, family and child health research on this population remains scarce. To address this disparity, Dalia Khalil, Ph.D., RN, assistant professor in Wayne State University s College of Nursing, was recently awarded a two-year, $161,451 grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health. Khalil and her team will expand on her previous research on immigrant Arab American parents and families. In my previous studies, immigrant Arab American postpartum women reported high levels of acculturative stress and depressive symptoms, said Khalil.