AI tools to fight Covid-19

Artificial Intelligence is an upcoming and useful decision-making tool to identify early infections due to coronavirus and also to help in monitoring the condition of the infected patients. Healthcare systems are in the crisis of this decision-making tool to handle Novel coronavirus infection and to get proper suggestions in real-time to avoid it's spread.

Applying AI tools can help in identifying the high-risk patients, track spread of virus and in controlling the infection in real time.

It can also be used to predict the future deaths using the current available data, and for population screening, medical help,  protocol and suggestions about infection control.General procedure of AI & Non-AI based applications can help general physicians in the hospitals to identify the Covid-19 symptoms.

Main applications of AI in Covid-19 include:

  • Early detection and diagnosis of the infection - AI is helpful in the diagnosis of the infected cases with the help of medical imaging technologies like Computed tomography (CT), Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan of human body parts, early diagnosis of the disease can be done to quickly analyze irregular symptom and other ‘red flags’ and thus alarm the patients and the healthcare authorities. Useful to develop a new diagnosis and management system for the COVID 19 cases, through useful algorithms.

  • To monitor the treatment - It can be useful for an intelligent platform for automatic monitoring and prediction of the spread of this virus. AI has the capability of providing day-to-day updates of the patients and also to provide solutions to be followed in COVID-19 pandemic in the healthcare systems. 

  • Contact tracing of the individuals - Used to analyze the level of infection by this virus & identifying the clusters and ‘hot spots’ and can successfully do the contact tracing of the individuals and also to monitor them regularly.

  • To project the cases and mortality - This is used to track and forecast the nature of the virus from the available data, social media and media platforms, about the risks of the infection and its likely spread. Also to identify the most vulnerable regions, people and countries and take measures accordingly.

  • In development of drugs and vaccines - This technology is used in speeding up drug testing in real-time, where standard testing takes plenty of time and hence helps to accelerate this process significantly, which may not be possible by a human. It is used for drug research by analyzing the available data on COVID-19 and also for drug delivery design and development. AI helps in developing vaccines and treatments at much faster rate than usual time and is also helpful for clinical trials during the development of the vaccine.

  • In reducing workload of healthcare workers - Due to the rapid increase in the number of cases during COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare professionals have a very high workload. To find the early diagnosis and by providing treatment at an early stage using digital approaches and decision science, this offers the best training to students and doctors regarding this new disease and through new research approches.

  • For prevention of the disease -Through real-time data analysis, AI can provide updated information which is helpful in the prevention of this disease. Can be Used to predict the probable sites of infection, the influx of the virus, need for beds and healthcare professionals during this crisis. It can be used to identify traits, causes and reasons for the spread of infection.AI plays a vital role in providing appropriate decision making tools and more predictive and preventive healthcare decisions in future. It is helpful for the future virus and disease prevention, with the help of previous mentored data over data prevalent at different times.

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