Updated Feb 18, 2021 | 13:27 IST The software tool, developed by the Departments of Computational and Data Science and Instrumentation and Applied Physics at IISc, called AnamNet, can 'read' the chest CT scans of COVID-19 patients. AI-based software tool to aid automated COVID-19 lung infection diagnosis | Photo Credit: Pixabay  Bengaluru: A new software tool that reveals the severity of lung infections in COVID-19 patients has been developed by researchers from the Indian Institute of Science, in collaboration with Oslo University Hospital and the University of Adger in Norway. It has been described in a recent study published in the journal "IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems", Bengaluru-based IISc said in a statement. COVID-19 can cause severe damage to the respiratory systems, especially the lung tissues. Image-based methods such as X-ray or CT scans can prove helpful in determining how bad the infection is, the statement noted.