Nature Communications (Aug 2020)

Artificial intelligence for the detection of COVID-19 pneumonia on chest CT using multinational datasets

  • Stephanie A. Harmon,
  • Thomas H. Sanford,
  • Sheng Xu,
  • Evrim B. Turkbey,
  • Holger Roth,
  • Ziyue Xu,
  • Dong Yang,
  • Andriy Myronenko,
  • Victoria Anderson,
  • Amel Amalou,
  • Maxime Blain,
  • Michael Kassin,
  • Dilara Long,
  • Nicole Varble,
  • Stephanie M. Walker,
  • Ulas Bagci,
  • Anna Maria Ierardi,
  • Elvira Stellato,
  • Guido Giovanni Plensich,
  • Giuseppe Franceschelli,
  • Cristiano Girlando,
  • Giovanni Irmici,
  • Dominic Labella,
  • Dima Hammoud,
  • Ashkan Malayeri,
  • Elizabeth Jones,
  • Ronald M. Summers,
  • Peter L. Choyke,
  • Daguang Xu,
  • Mona Flores,
  • Kaku Tamura,
  • Hirofumi Obinata,
  • Hitoshi Mori,
  • Francesca Patella,
  • Maurizio Cariati,
  • Gianpaolo Carrafiello,
  • Peng An,
  • Bradford J. Wood,
  • Baris Turkbey

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17971-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Chest CT is emerging as a valuable diagnostic tool for clinical management of COVID-19 associated lung disease. Here, the authors present a multinational study on the application of deep learning algorithms for COVID-19 diagnosis against multiple lung conditions as controls.