Share this article Share this article LEUVEN, Belgium, Jan. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Belgian initiative icovid, which supports radiologists in the assessment of CT images of the lungs of COVID-19 patients, has grown into a multicentre European project, co-funded by the EU Horizon 2020 programme. icovid was set up in March by UZ Brussel, KU Leuven, ico metrix and ETRO, an imec research group of VUB. Professor Jef Vandemeulebroucke of ETRO: "What started as a local project is now being rolled out in 800 hospitals in Europe and supported by excellent research centres all over Europe. With ico lung, we can detect COVID-19 patients at an early stage and quantify the extent of lung lesions. Meanwhile, we are further improving the AI software to identify lung damage as COVID-19 even more quickly, and to determine the further care path of the patient faster and better through prognostic models."