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ArticleApplied soft computing2021

AI-assisted CT imaging analysis for COVID-19 screening: Building and deploying a medical AI system.

Bo Wang, Shuo Jin, Qingsen Yan, Haibo Xu, Chuan Luo, Lai Wei, Wei Zhao, Xuexue Hou, Wenshuo Ma, Zhengqing Xu and 21 more

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Article in Applied soft computing, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 204 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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204citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
34.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

204 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 367 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

31 authors at 7 institutions in 2 countries.

Bo WangState Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology and Instruments, Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Shuo JinBeijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, School of Clinical Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Qingsen YanUniversity of Adelaide, SA, Australia.
Haibo XuDepartment of Radiology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
Chuan LuoState Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology and Instruments, Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Lai WeiBeijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, School of Clinical Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Wei ZhaoBeijing Jingzhen Medical Technology Ltd., Beijing, China.
Xuexue HouBeijing Jingzhen Medical Technology Ltd., Beijing, China.
Wenshuo MaInstitute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Zhengqing XuBeijing Jingzhen Medical Technology Ltd., Beijing, China.
Zhuozhao ZhengBeijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, School of Clinical Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Wenbo SunDepartment of Radiology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
Lan LanDepartment of Radiology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
Wei ZhangBeijing Jingzhen Medical Technology Ltd., Beijing, China.
Xiangdong MuBeijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, School of Clinical Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Chenxi ShiInstitute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Zhongxiao WangInstitute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Jihae LeeInstitute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Zijian JinBeijing Jingzhen Medical Technology Ltd., Beijing, China.
Minggui LinBeijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, School of Clinical Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Hongbo JinBeijing Jingzhen Medical Technology Ltd., Beijing, China.
Liang ZhangSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi'an, China.
Jun GuoBeijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, School of Clinical Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Benqi ZhaoBeijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, School of Clinical Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Zhizhong RenBeijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, School of Clinical Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Shuhao WangInstitute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Wei XuInstitute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Xinghuan WangCenter for Evidence-Based and Translational Medicine, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
Jianming WangDepartment of Biliary and Pancreatic Surgery/Cancer Research Center Affiliated Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Zheng YouState Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology and Instruments, Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Jiahong DongBeijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, School of Clinical Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Tsinghua University · CNBeijing Anzhen Hospital · CNBeijing Tsinghua Chang Gung Hospital · CNWuhan University · CNZhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University · CNHuazhong University of Science and Technology · CNXidian University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The sudden outbreak of novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) increased the diagnostic burden of radiologists. In the time of an epidemic crisis, we hope artificial intelligence (AI) to reduce physician workload in regions with the outbreak, and improve the diagnosis accuracy for physicians before they could acquire enough experience with the new disease. In this paper, we present our experience in building and deploying an AI system that automatically analyzes CT images and provides the probability of infection to rapidly detect COVID-19 pneumonia. The proposed system which consists of classification and segmentation will save about 30%-40% of the detection time for physicians and promote the performance of COVID-19 detection. Specifically, working in an interdisciplinary team of over 30 people with medical and/or AI background, geographically distributed in Beijing and Wuhan, we are able to overcome a series of challenges (

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ClassificationCOVID-19Deep learningMedical assistance systemNeural networkSegmentation

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PMID33199977
PMCPMC7654325
OpenAlexW3102469298

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