Artificial intelligence is able to identify a person with coronavirus in just an hour by analysing a person's vital signs and blood test data.
The new AI, developed by the University of Oxford, and titled Curial AI, is able to tell if a person is suffering from COVID-19 within just one hour, much quicker than the current procedure of a nose and throat swabs, with it taking 12 to 48 hours to get results.
The study was carried out between April 20 and May 6 on the 3,000 plus people that visited accident and emergency centres at four Oxford hospitals, with the results showing that the AI predicted right in more than 92 per cent of cases.
Lead researcher and clinician Dr Andrew Soltan said: "Until we have confirmation that patients are negative, we must take additional precautions for patients with coronavirus symptoms, which are very common. The Curial AI is optimised to quickly give negative results with high confidence, safely excluding COVID-19 at the front door and maintaining flow through the hospital. When we tested the Curial AI on data for all patients coming to Oxford University Hospitals' emergency departments in the last week of April and the first week of May, it correctly predicted patients' COVID status more than 90 per cent of the time."
