AI X-ray analysis detects Covid-19 more reliably

Stavroula Mougiakakou, Group Head AI in Health and Nutrition Laboratory, ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research of the University of Bern. Courtesy of Stavroula Mougiakakou - A team of researchers at Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, and the ARTORG Center for Biomedical Research at the University of Bern has developed a new chest radiography image analysis for the detection of Covid-19. In the process, they taught a computer algorithm various diagnoses based on 8000 X-ray images. The researchers compared this artificial intelligence (AI) with standard, diagnostic annotation by radiologists. Especially for distinguishing Covid-19 from non-Covid-19 lung disease, AI provided significantly more reliable results. The University of Bern and Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, are investing into consolidation and expansion of their leading position in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine. In mid-November, the establishment of the Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (CAIM) was announced.