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AI Program Quickly Predicts Which Patients with COVID-19 Might have Lethal Complications
Written by AZoRoboticsMay 13 2021
A new study has found that a computer program trained to observe patterns by examining thousands of chest X-rays estimated, with up to 80% precision, which patients with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) would develop fatal complications within 4 days.
Chest X-ray from patient severely ill from COVID-19, showing (in white patches) infected tissue spread across the lungs. Image Credit: Courtesy of Nature Publishing or npj Digital Medicine.
The program developed by scientists at NYU Grossman School of Medicine made use of several hundred gigabytes of data gleaned from 5,224 chest X-rays obtained from 2,943 severely ill patients infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the infections.