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ArticleScientific reports2022

Smart pooling: AI-powered COVID-19 informative group testing.

María Escobar, Guillaume Jeanneret, Laura Bravo-Sánchez, Angela Castillo, Catalina Gómez, Diego Valderrama, Mafe Roa, Julián Martínez, Jorge Madrid-Wolff, Martha Cepeda and 9 more

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Article in Scientific reports, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Sample pooling: burden or solution?Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases · 2021
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  9. Considerations for Pooled Testing of Employees for SARS-CoV-2.Journal of occupational and environmental medicine · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

19 authors.

María EscobarCenter for Research and Formation in Artificial Intelligence, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
Guillaume JeanneretCenter for Research and Formation in Artificial Intelligence, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
Laura Bravo-SánchezCenter for Research and Formation in Artificial Intelligence, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
Angela CastilloCenter for Research and Formation in Artificial Intelligence, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
Catalina GómezCenter for Research and Formation in Artificial Intelligence, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
Diego ValderramaCenter for Research and Formation in Artificial Intelligence, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
Mafe RoaCenter for Research and Formation in Artificial Intelligence, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
Julián MartínezCenter for Research and Formation in Artificial Intelligence, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
Jorge Madrid-WolffLaboratory of Applied Photonics Devices, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Martha CepedaSchool of Science, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
Marcela Guevara-SuarezApplied Genomics Research Group, Vice Presidency for Research and Creation, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
Olga L SarmientoSchool of Medicine, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
Andrés L MedagliaCenter for Research and Formation in Artificial Intelligence, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
Manu Forero-SheltonDepartment of Physics, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
Mauricio VelascoDepartment of Mathematics, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
Juan M PedrazaDepartment of Physics, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
Rachid LaajajSchool of Economics, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
Silvia RestrepoApplied Genomics Research Group, Vice Presidency for Research and Creation, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
Pablo ArbelaezCenter for Research and Formation in Artificial Intelligence, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. pa.arbelaez@uniandes.edu.co.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Massive molecular testing for COVID-19 has been pointed out as fundamental to moderate the spread of the pandemic. Pooling methods can enhance testing efficiency, but they are viable only at low incidences of the disease. We propose Smart Pooling, a machine learning method that uses clinical and sociodemographic data from patients to increase the efficiency of informed Dorfman testing for COVID-19 by arranging samples into all-negative pools. To do this, we ran an automated method to train numerous machine learning models on a retrospective dataset from more than 8000 patients tested for SARS-CoV-2 from April to July 2020 in Bogotá, Colombia. We estimated the efficiency gains of using the predictor to support Dorfman testing by simulating the outcome of tests. We also computed the attainable efficiency gains of non-adaptive pooling schemes mathematically. Moreover, we measured the false-negative error rates in detecting the ORF1ab and N genes of the virus in RT-qPCR dilutions. Finally, we presented the efficiency gains of using our proposed pooling scheme on proof-of-concept pooled tests. We believe Smart Pooling will be efficient for optimizing massive testing of SARS-CoV-2.

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COVID-19COVID-19 TestingArtificial IntelligenceHumansRetrospective StudiesRNA, ViralSARS-CoV-2Sensitivity and SpecificitySpecimen HandlingRNA, Viral

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PMID35444162
PMCPMC9020431

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