{"id":569807,"date":"2024-03-23T15:02:01","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T19:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/?post_type=news&#038;p=569807"},"modified":"2024-08-06T14:12:23","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T18:12:23","slug":"ai-can-now-detect-covid-19-in-lung-ultrasounds","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/news\/ai-can-now-detect-covid-19-in-lung-ultrasounds\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Can Now Detect COVID-19 in Lung Ultrasounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence can spot COVID-19 in lung ultrasound images much like facial recognition software can spot a face in a crowd, new research shows.<\/p>\n<p>The findings boost AI-driven medical diagnostics and bring health care professionals closer to being able to quickly diagnose patients with COVID-19 and other pulmonary diseases with algorithms that comb through ultrasound images to identify signs of disease.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cDetection of COVID-19 features in lung ultrasound images using deep neural networks,\u201d<\/span><span> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s43856-024-00463-5\">newly published in<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>Communications Medicine<\/em><\/a><span>, is the culmination of an effort that started early in the pandemic when clinicians needed tools to rapidly assess legions of patients in overwhelmed emergency rooms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe developed this automated detection tool to help doctors in emergency settings with high caseloads of patients who need to be diagnosed quickly and accurately, such as in the earlier stages of the pandemic,\u201d said senior author<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/faculty\/muyinatu-bell\/\">Muyinatu Bell<\/a><span>, an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. \u201cPotentially, we want to have wireless devices that patients can use at home to monitor progression of COVID-19, too.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Read the full story on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/news\/ai-can-now-detect-covid-19-in-lung-ultrasounds\/?utm_campaign=wse_social&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=linkedin\"><strong>The Hub.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-569807","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_categories-research"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>AI Can Now Detect COVID-19 in Lung Ultrasounds - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/news\/ai-can-now-detect-covid-19-in-lung-ultrasounds\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"AI Can Now Detect COVID-19 in Lung Ultrasounds - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Artificial intelligence can spot COVID-19 in lung ultrasound images much like facial recognition software can spot a face in a crowd, new research shows. 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