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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2021

A Machine Learning Approach as an Aid for Early COVID-19 Detection.

Roberto Martinez-Velazquez, Diana P Tobón V, Alejandro Sanchez, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, Emil Petriu

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Roberto Martinez-VelazquezSchool of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, 75 Laurier Ave. E, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-2008-3654
Diana P Tobón VFaculty of Engineering, Universidad de Medellín, Carrera 87 No. 30-65, Medellin 050010, Colombia.
Alejandro SanchezDepartment of Information Technology, University of Colima, Avenida Universidad 333, Las Viboras, 28040 Colima, Col., Mexico.
Abdulmotaleb El SaddikSchool of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, 75 Laurier Ave. E, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-7690-8547
Emil PetriuSchool of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, 75 Laurier Ave. E, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 that causes the disease COVID-19 has forced us to go into our homes and limit our physical interactions with others. Economies around the world have come to a halt, with non-essential businesses being forced to close in order to prevent further propagation of the virus. Developing countries are having more difficulties due to their lack of access to diagnostic resources. In this study, we present an approach for detecting COVID-19 infections exclusively on the basis of self-reported symptoms. Such an approach is of great interest because it is relatively inexpensive and easy to deploy at either an individual or population scale. Our best model delivers a sensitivity score of 0.752, a specificity score of 0.609, and an area under the curve for the receiver operating characteristic of 0.728. These are promising results that justify continuing research efforts towards a machine learning test for detecting COVID-19.

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COVID-19COVID-19 TestingHumansMachine LearningROC CurveSARS-CoV-2COVID-19 detectionmachine learningSARS-CoV-2symptoms-based test

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PMID34207437
PMCPMC8235359

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