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AI And Data Science Is Useful To Combat Coronavirus- Is That True?

One of the most threatening viruses Covid-19 is spread across the world and it affects at least 160 countries within a three-month span. It has emerged as one of the biggest challenges to face the 21st-century world. But thanks to the AI technology that is helping to save people through various ways. AI technology can help to educate, warn, and empower people to become more knowledgeable about the intensity of corona spread and significantly reduce the impact.

Apart from AI, you have a lot of technologies like cloud, mobile, analytics, robotics, Machine learning, and also high-speed internet to effectively deal with all kinds of pandemic situations. But AI plays a vital role in mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic situation. Developments in AI apps such as speech recognition, natural language processing, data analytics, machine learning, deep learning, chatbots, and facial recognition are not only used for diagnosis but also for contact tracing and vaccine development. Let us see how it helps.

Use Of AI And Data Science To Combat Coronavirus-

1. AI To Track And Forecast Outbreaks-
If we can track the virus, it will be easier to fight against it. With the analysis of news reports, social media platforms and government documents, AI can learn and detect an outbreak. The canadian startup BlueDot tracks the infectious disease risks by using AI, actually it’s AI noticed and warned about the threat several days before the WHO issued their public warnings.

2. Diagnosis Through AI-
Immediate diagnosis is always a winning measure towards the fight of any disease. And hence immediate diagnosis that response measures such as quarantine can be implemented to further limit the spread of infection. Because of the huge number of cases, there is a barrier to rapid diagnosis. AI has improved this diagnostic time through technology such as that developed by LinkingMed, a Beijing-based oncology data platform and medical data analysis company. Pneumonia is a starting complication of COVID-19 infection that can now easily be diagnosed by the analysis of a CT scan within 60 seconds with 92% accuracy and a recall rate of 97% on test data sets. This is possible due to the AI model that analyzed CT images and quantified in terms of number, volume and proportion.

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