Rajalakshmi group of educational institutions in Chennai is familiar for their versatility of academic excellence and research activities. In the group, Centre for Medical Imaging is formed with the objective of creating proficient solutions in medical imaging applications. The centre has members from faculty fraternity, students, and medical imaging professionals.
Ever since the onset of the pandemic COVID-19, the members of the centre discusses the research progress across global in the aspect of medical imaging to detect COVID-19 through various imaging modalities like X-Ray. Ultrasound and CT scan. Initially, we were thinking to use ultrasound images but due to some technical issues, we couldn’t follow it up.
Later we decided to use chest X-ray images and incidentally, we were able to get around 100 COVID-19 affected subjects’ chest X-ray images through open-source Canadian research forum. With the acquired images we planned to develop an Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool to detect COVID-19 condition from the test chest X-ray image.
Read More : https://ritchennai.org/blog/2020/04/27/development-of-artificial-intelligence-ai-tool-to-detect-covid-19-condition-from-a-chest-x-ray-image/
