AKTU, KGMU ink pact for project to identify Covid patients through AI

LUCKNOW : Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University (AKTU), Lucknow and King George’s Medical University (KGMU) Lucknow have taken up a collaborative project where artificial intelligence (AI) will be used to identify patients infected with coronavirus through x-ray, CT scan and other images.

“Chest x-rays or CT scans of the COVID-19 patients will be subjected to analysis, using artificial intelligence for exploring discriminatory behaviour from normal persons or those having common flu, pneumonia,” said AKTU vice-chancellor Prof Vinay Kumar Pathak.

Prof Pathak said artificial intelligence based systems would help in achieving success for image recognition and classification. “Thus, artificial intelligence with good-labelled dataset of COVID-19 can play a significant role to diagnose the patients,” he said.

He said the main purpose of this collaborative research was to develop a handy standalone system, which will help to identify the COVID-19 affected people from medical images in real time situation.

Both AKTU and KGMU are quite hopeful about getting positive results in this joint research project. Prof Pathak said that in the process, data of COVID 19 patients and non-COVID 19 patients will be provided by KGMU and then the scientists from AKTU will use computer vision image processing analysis followed by machine learning and deep learning models of artificial intelligence.

“Once the model is trained and if the collaborative work succeed and yield desired results, then the diagnostic tool will be useful in screening of COVID 19 patients. Different machine learning and deep learning models will be investigated and tested to get the perfect diagnostic tool,” he said.

Prof MLB Bhat, vice chancellor, KGMU said the proposed research for COVID-19 diagnosis would involve the collection of chest X-Ray images of patients diagnosed with COVID-19.”