{"id":103045,"date":"2020-02-29T09:04:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T17:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/ai-enables-doctors-to-diagnose-covid-19-infection-in-seconds"},"modified":"2020-02-29T09:04:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-29T17:04:14","slug":"ai-enables-doctors-to-diagnose-covid-19-infection-in-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/ai-enables-doctors-to-diagnose-covid-19-infection-in-seconds","title":{"rendered":"AI Enables Doctors to Diagnose COVID-19 Infection in Seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-enables-doctors-to-diagnose-covid-19-infection-in-seconds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the moment, the YITU \u201cCoronavirus Chest CT Smart Evaluation System\u201d can compress the diagnosis of suspected cases to 2\u20133 seconds. The company also designed a chatbot doctor that can help the public with self-diagnosis through Q&amp;A and recommend nearby hospitals and appointment booking services.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/langlo\/article\/PIIS2214-109X(20)30068-1\/fulltext\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">article published in medical journal <em class=\"\">the Lancelet<\/em><\/a> on February 25 finds that reduced medical resource levels will trigger a spike in the coronavirus death rate in the local population beyond the current estimates. The study shows that death rates are over 3 percent in Wuhan city, 2.9 percent in Hubei province, while only 0.7 percent across the rest of China.<\/p>\n<p>Close to 30,000 medical staff from across China have been dispatched to Hubei province to help overworked local medical professionals in the fight against COVID-19. Fast and accurate diagnosis is critical on the front line, and now an AI-powered diagnostic assessment system is helping Hubei medical teams do just that.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, CT lung scans and nucleic acid tests are the two main diagnostic tools doctors use in confirming COVID-19 infections. CT imaging is crucial for diagnosis verification, and also allows doctors to access lung infection severity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAt the moment, the YITU \u201cCoronavirus Chest CT Smart Evaluation System\u201d can compress the diagnosis of suspected cases to 2\u20133 seconds. The company also designed a chatbot doctor that can help the public with self-diagnosis through Q&amp;A and recommend nearby hospitals and appointment booking services.\u201d An article published in medical journal the Lancelet on February [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}