IISC-Bengaluru researchers develop software tool to diagnose Covid-19 severity in lungs February 19, 2021 × Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) designed a special tool called ‘AnamNet’ to diagnose the severity of coronavirus infection in patients’ lungs. The study was carried out by researchers from the Departments of Computational and Data Science (CDS) and Instrumentation and Applied Physics at IISc. They conducted the study in collaboration with colleagues from the Oslo University Hospital and the University of Agder in Norway. The study was published in the journal IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. To develop this software tool, the researchers employed a unique neural network and deep learning, and other image processing techniques. Their tool finds specific abnormal features and estimates the damage in the lungs and identifies infected areas in a chest CT scan with a high level of accuracy.