Princeton researchers have developed a diagnostic tool that uses AI to analyze chest X-rays for COVID-19 lung damage. The tool could help doctors triage patients and better allocate scarce resources.
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AI tool gives doctors a new look at the lungs in treating COVID-19
Scott Lyon, Office of Engineering Communications, May 21, 2020
Spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic, Princeton researchers have developed a diagnostic tool to analyze chest X-rays for patterns in diseased lungs. The new tool could give doctors valuable information about a patient’s condition, quickly and cheaply, at the point of care.
Princeton researchers have developed a diagnostic tool that uses AI to analyze chest X-rays for COVID-19 lung damage. The tool could help doctors triage patients and better allocate scarce resources.
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Jason Fleischer, professor of electrical engineering and the project’s principal investigator, said he was inspired to create the tool after reading about COVID-19′s devastating range of attacks. As hospitals have been overrun with patients, doctors have observed two basic types of lung damage, one more immediately life-threatening than the other. Treatment can differ between the types, so distinguishing the two could improve care and better allocate scarce resources.