Chennai: A team of students and faculty from Rajalakshmi Group of Institutions has developed a breakthrough software to detect Covid-19.
The AI (Artificial Intelligence) tool is based on neural network to detect Covid-19, CAP (Community-Acquired Pneumonia) and normal condition from chest X-Ray images. “A whopping number of 14148 images were used in the training process and the tool has testing accuracy of 95.4 percent,” said a press note.
S Rajkumar,professor and head,department of Biomedical Engineering; V Sapthagirivasan, professor,BME; V Rajaraman, assistant professor, CSE and Ashwin Ramesh third year CSE student are the members of the team that developed the unique software.
All the above are part of Centre of Medical Imaging of Rajalakshmi Group of Institutions. Haree S Meganathan from the management of Rajalakshmi Institutions, who is a radiologist himself, said, “It is a matter of immense pride that our students and staff have developed this AI based platform to detect Covid-19 cases. Our team has spent sleepless nights working on and testing this software in such short notice”.
He added: “We are keen to support all government and private hospitals with this quick and accurate tool which will be given free of cost.”