Can AI Help in Screening Viral and COVID-19 Pneumonia?

Muhammad E. H. Chowdhury; Tawsifur Rahman; Amith Khandakar; Rashid Mazhar; Muhammad Abdul Kadir; Zaid Bin Mahbub; Khandakar Reajul Islam; Muhammad Salman Khan; Atif Iqbal; Nasser Al Emadi; Mamun Bin Ibne Reaz; Mohammad Tariqul Islam

doi:https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2020.3010287

doi.org/10.1109/access.2020.3010287

Can AI Help in Screening Viral and COVID-19 Pneumonia?

Muhammad E. H. Chowdhury

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Tawsifur Rahman

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..., Mohammad Tariqul Islam

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IEEE Access3.90

Volume: 8, Pages: 132665 - 132676

Published: Jan 1, 2020

Abstract

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a pandemic disease, which has already caused thousands of causalities and infected several millions of people worldwide. Any technological tool enabling rapid screening of the COVID-19 infection with high accuracy can be crucially helpful to the healthcare professionals. The main clinical tool currently in use for the diagnosis of COVID-19 is the Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), which is...