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AI ‘could speed up diagnosis’

ARTIFICIAL intelligence could speed up Covid diagnosis in emergency wards.

The AI program processes images of chest X-rays in patients displaying shortness of breath and aims to give an accurate result in under three minutes – significantly faster than the average two-hour wait for a PCR test result.

The model learned the subtle difference in appearance between X-rays of Covid and non-Covid patients using more than 300,000 images. It was created by AI experts Bering, with researchers from NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.

The BraveCX-CovIx algorithm has been proven to work in four hospitals.

Professor David Lowe, joint clinical lead of the West of Scotland Innovation Hub and an emergency medicine consultant at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, said: ‘This is another welcome development demonstrating the potential for AI to... [ensure] patients are getting the highest quality and most relevant treatment.’

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