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Research Roundup: SFU researchers develop AI tool to better diagnose COVID-19 cases

Written by: Nathaniel Tok, Peak Associate SFU Researchers and Providence Health Care (PHC) are using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to better understand how to detect COVID-19 cases. The tool, which is currently under testing in St. Paul’s Hospital, will help clinicians distinguish between COVID-19 pneumonia and non-COVID-19 pneumonia.  It works together with other diagnosis tools like Computed Tomography (CT) scans by analyzing a chest X-ray image to help confirm if the pneumonia’s characteristics are consistent with COVID-19. Yağız Aksoy, an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing Science, helped create the machine’s learning algorithms that enables the AI tool to analyze…

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