Cited by 211COVID-19 diagnosis using AIArtificial Intelligence in Healthcare and EducationHealthcare during COVID-19 Pandemic

Applications of artificial intelligence in battling against covid-19: A literature review

Open access
Tayarani N., Mohammad-H.·2021·Chaos, Solitons & Fractals

Abstract

Colloquially known as coronavirus, the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome CoronaVirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), that causes CoronaVirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), has become a matter of grave concern for every country around the world. The rapid growth of the pandemic has wreaked havoc and prompted the need for immediate reactions to curb the effects. To manage the problems, many research in a variety of area of science have started studying the issue. Artificial Intelligence is among the area of science that has found great applications in tackling the problem in many aspects. Here, we perform an overview on the applications of AI in a variety of fields including diagnosis of the disease via different types of tests and symptoms, monitoring patients, identifying severity of a patient, processing covid-19 related imaging tests, epidemiology, pharmaceutical studies, etc. The aim of this paper is to perform a comprehensive survey on the applications of AI in battling against the difficulties the outbreak has caused. Thus we cover every way that AI approaches have been employed and to cover all the research until the writing of this paper. We try organize the works in a way that overall picture is comprehensible. Such a picture, although full of details, is very helpful in understand where AI sits in current pandemonium. We also tried to conclude the paper with ideas on how the problems can be tackled in a better way and provide some suggestions for future works.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1016/j.chaos.2020.110338

Cites

826 of 826 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • Several convolutional neural network approaches for automatic detection from X-ray images in COVID-19 and pulmonary disease showed excellent performance.

    “In the area of COVID-19 and pulmonary disease, several convolutional neural network approaches have been proposed for automatic detection from X-ray images which showed an excellent performance [46, 276–279].”

    From Review of deep learning: concepts, CNN architectures, challenges, applications, future directions (2021) · cites this paper as [278]

    The review’s “CT Scan and deep neural networks” section describes several CNN approaches for detecting COVID-19 from X-ray images and says VGG16 performed best in one comparison (page unavailable). It does not establish that the approaches generally showed excellent performance. (LLM, conf=0.83)

    Experimental — accuracy not yet measured

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

1 retracted

Flagged first, then by citations

55 of the 881 references couldn’t be matched to a known paper.

Research works printed but not linked: 9

  1. [51]Hassanien A.E., Salam A., Darwish A.. Artificial intelligence approach to predict the covid-19 patient’s recovery. EasyChair Preprint no. 3223; (EasyChair, 2020a).
  2. [203]Rahimzadeh M. Attar A. A modified deep convolutional neural network for detecting covid-19 and pneumonia from chest x-ray images based on the concatenation of xception and resnet50v2 Informatics in Medicine Unlocked 19 2020 100360 32501424 PMC7255267
  3. [212]Alazab M. Awajan A. Mesleh A. Abraham A. Jatana V. Alhyari S. Covid-19 prediction and detection using deep learning International Journal of Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications 12 2020 168 181
  4. [279]Majeed T. Rashid R. Ali D. Asaad A. Covid-19 detection using cnn transfer learning from x-ray images medRxiv 2020
  5. [299]Abbas A. Abdelsamea M. Gaber M. Classification of covid-19 in chest x-ray images using detrac deep convolutional neural network medRxiv 2020 PMC7474514 34764548
  6. [407]Zandavi S.M., Rashidi T.H., Vafaee F.. Forecasting the spread of covid-19 under control scenarios using lstm and dynamic behavioral models. 2020. arXiv:2005.12270. · arXiv
  7. [452]Ge Q. Hu Z. Zhang K. Li S. Lin W. Jin L. Recurrent neural reinforcement learning for counterfactual evaluation of public health interventions on the spread of covid-19 in the world medRxiv 2020
  8. [532]Zhou X., Mulay A., Ferrara E., Zafarani R.. Recovery: A multimodal repository for covid-19 news credibility research. 2020c. arXiv:2006.05557. · arXiv
  9. [553]Jha I.P. Awasthi R. Kumar A. KUMAR V. Sethi T. Explainable-machine-learning to discover drivers and to predict mental illness during covid-19 medRxiv 2020

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Tayarani N., M.-H.
Venue
Chaos, Solitons & Fractals
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2021-01
Volume
142
Pages
110338
ISSN
0960-0779 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3089349608
Cited by
210
References
881
Citations by year
2026: 4 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 20 · 2023: 40 · 2022: 49 · 2021: 86 · 2020: 2
FWCI
6.52
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Chaos Solitons & Fractals (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • University of Hertfordshire Research Archive (University of Hertfordshire) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
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
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Healthcare during COVID-19 Pandemic
Keywords
COVID-19 pandemic, artificial intelligence applications, SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 diagnosis, symptom-based diagnosis, patient monitoring, disease severity prediction, medical image analysis, drug discovery, pandemic response

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review