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Clinically Applicable AI System for Accurate Diagnosis, Quantitative Measurements, and Prognosis of COVID-19 Pneumonia Using Computed Tomography

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Zhang, Kang, Liu, Xiaohong, Shen, Jun, Li, Zhihuan, Sang, Ye, Wu, Xingwang, Zha, Yunfei, Liang, Wenhua +37 more·2020·Cell

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Many COVID-19 patients infected by SARS-CoV-2 virus develop pneumonia (called novel coronavirus pneumonia, NCP) and rapidly progress to respiratory failure. However, rapid diagnosis and identification of high-risk patients for early intervention are challenging. Using a large computed tomography (CT) database from 3,777 patients, we developed an AI system that can diagnose NCP and differentiate it from other common pneumonia and normal controls. The AI system can assist radiologists and physicians in performing a quick diagnosis especially when the health system is overloaded. Significantly, our AI system identified important clinical markers that correlated with the NCP lesion properties. Together with the clinical data, our AI system was able to provide accurate clinical prognosis that can aid clinicians to consider appropriate early clinical management and allocate resources appropriately. We have made this AI system available globally to assist the clinicians to combat COVID-19.

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Zhang, K., Liu, X., Shen, J., Li, Z., Sang, Y., Wu, X., Zha, Y., Liang, W., Wang, C., Wang, K., Ye, L., Gao, M., Zhou, Z., Li, L., Wang, J., Yang, Z., Cai, H., Xu, J., Yang, L., Cai, W., Xu, W., Wu, S., Zhang, W., Jiang, S., Zheng, L., Zhang, X., Wang, L., Lu, L., Li, J., Yin, H., Wang, W., Li, O., Zhang, C., Liang, L., Wu, T., Deng, R., Wei, K., Zhou, Y., Chen, T., Lau, J. Y.-N., Fok, M., He, J., Lin, T., Li, W., & Wang, G.
Affiliations
  • Macau University of Science and Technology (MO)
  • Tsinghua University (CN)
  • Sun Yat-sen University (CN)
  • Sichuan University (CN)
  • China Three Gorges University (CN)
  • First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University (CN)
  • Wuhan University (CN)
  • First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University (CN)
  • Guangzhou Regenerative Medicine and Health Guangdong Laboratory (CN)
  • First People's Hospital of Yunnan Province (CN)
  • Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HK)
  • Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology (CN)
Corresponding author
  • Zhang, Kang
  • He, Jianxing
  • Lin, Tianxin
  • Li, Weimin
  • Wang, Guangyu
Venue
Cell
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2020-06
Volume
181
Issue
6
Pages
1423-1433.e11
ISSN
0092-8674 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3020653337
Cited by
917
References
46
Citations by year
2026: 43 · 2025: 69 · 2024: 106 · 2023: 138 · 2022: 190 · 2021: 273 · 2020: 97
FWCI
84.99
Type
journal article
Language
en
Update notices
erratum (2020-09-03)
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Locations
  • Cell (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
Macau University of Science and Technology
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging › COVID-19 diagnosis using AI
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Health Informatics › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging › Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
Keywords
COVID-19 pneumonia, SARS-CoV-2, computed tomography, artificial intelligence, pneumonia diagnosis, differential diagnosis, lesion quantification, prognosis, clinical biomarkers, radiology, clinical decision support
MeSH terms
Radiologists, COVID-19, Artificial Intelligence, China, Humans, Lung, Models, Biological, Pilot Projects, Pneumonia, Viral, Prognosis, Respiratory Insufficiency, Tomography, X-Ray Computed, Cohort Studies, Coronavirus Infections, Pandemics, Datasets as Topic

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