The day when AI runs every part of our lives is not far away. In this case, fortunately, it’s helping the human race. Artificial intelligence (AI) researchers and radiologists around the globe have recently reported AI systems that accurately detect COVID-19 in chest radiographs. A new research, led by Indian doctors, claims that their study can help medical practitioners infer a patient’s condition and predict COVID-19 lung and pneumonia diseases based on an X-ray report.

Titled, Deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) design for pathology detection of COVID-19 in chest X-Ray Images, the research has been conducted by Narayana Darapaneni, Anindya Sil, Balaji Kagiti, Krishna Kumar S, Ramanathan NB, Vasantha Kumara SB, Anwesh Reddy Paduri and Abdul Man, who are part of ed-tech company Great Learning’s AI & Machine learning PG Programme. “The idea for the research came from a Capstone project as part of the Great Learning AIML (Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning) course. Capstone project is something that is mandatory for all the students. Great Learning professor Dr Darapaneni proposed the idea to take up the topic of COVID-19 detection in X-rays using AI. The purpose was to come up with a system that can help augment radiologists to analyse X-rays quickly and come up with the conclusion on what the lung pathology [disease] is based on by reading the image. This method can also be extended to CT scans,” says Krishna Kumar S.