Artificial intelligence and radiology: Combating the COVID-19 conundrum

Artificial intelligence and radiology: Combating the COVID-19 conundrum

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The COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated rapid testing and diagnosis to manage its spread.While reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) is being used as the gold standard method to diagnose COVID-19, many scientists and doctors have pointed out some challenges related to the variability, accuracy, and affordability of this technique.At the same time, radiological methods, which were being 1964-1973 Fuel System used to diagnose COVID-19 in the early phase of the pandemic in China, were sidelined by many primarily due to their low specificity and the difficulty in conducting a differential diagnosis.However, the utility of radiological methods cannot be neglected.Indeed, over the past few months, healthcare consultants and radiologists in India have been using or advising the use of high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) of the chest for early diagnosis and tracking of COVID-19, particularly in preoperative and asymptomatic patients.

At the same time, scientists have been trying to improve upon the radiological method of COVID-19 diagnosis and monitoring by using artificial intelligence (AI)-based interpretation models.This review is an effort to compile and compare such efforts.To this end, the latest scientific literature on the use of radiology and AI-assisted radiology for the diagnosis and monitoring of Tanks COVID-19 has been reviewed and presented, highlighting the strengths and limitations of such techniques.