IIT researchers use AI to detect covid-19 through chest X-rays

A team of researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Jodhpur has developed a covid-19 diagnosis model by implementing artificial intelligence (AI) to chest X-ray scans. While this is not the first covid-19 diagnosis technique that uses chest X-rays to detect the presence of the Sars-CoV-2 infection in lungs, the researchers claim that their AI model is'explainable', and can accurately pinpoint the affected lung areas as a result of this infection. Called Comit-Net, the diagnosis process involves an AI algorithm that has been trained on a set of chest X-ray data. This is then applied to chest scans of lungs that have been affected by covid-19. According to the researchers, the key differentiating factor behind this method is the ability to single out the affected areas of lungs, which in turn can help in more effective medical treatments.