Scientists in Scotland claim to have developed a test that uses X-ray technology and Artificial Intelligence to detect COVID within minutes with an accuracy of 98% as per The Indian Express.?
The normal RT-PCR test takes two hours and the test developed at the University of the West of Scotland claims to take just minutes and nearly has an accuracy of almost 100%.
ˇ°The state-of-the-art technique utilizes X-ray technology, comparing scans to a database of around 3,000 images, belonging to patients with Covid-19, healthy individuals and people with viral pneumonia,ˇ± said a report in Medical News which is an open-access medical and life sciences hub.?
An AI process then diagnoses with an algorithm that analyses visual imagery.?
Professor Naeem Ramzan, Director of the Affective and Human Computing for SMART Environments Research Centre at the University of Scotland is in charge of the 3-man team.?
Gabriel Okolo and Dr Stamos Katsigiannis are the other 2 members.?
ˇ°Several countries are unable to carry out large numbers of Covid tests because of limited diagnosis tools, but this technique utilises easily accessible technology to quickly detect the virus,ˇ± he said.?
Since early 2020, COVID has disrupted the way we live and even as things look to get back to normal, it won't completely be the same as this is the new normal.?
Be it sports, entertainment, travel or parties, things have changed.
Till now there have been 339,709,667 coronavirus cases and 5,584,789 along with 273,260,013 recoveries.
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