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Interesting project from a research standpoint, for Covid however I don't see the use case. Still it is interesting to see what can be done. A family member do
by aeyes 6y ago
Interesting project from a research standpoint, for Covid however I don't see the use case. Still it is interesting to see what can be done.
A family member does this for a living and they have been working on a lot of Covid cases lately, also in emergency situations. Even if you rush it, you have the patient on the bench for at least 10 minutes. Out of the 10 minutes, it only takes takes 1 minute to review the result. In the case of Covid it is something that is very, very easy to analyze visually - even with little experience.
We can still improve the process a lot, there is a huuuge difference depending on equipment. Image quality, image development, the time it takes to get the image developed (yes, sometimes that is done in a different room) vary a lot depending on platform. The software could be improved a lot but vendors don't seem to be developing old platforms a lot - which is sad because equipment doesn't get replaced every couple of years.
Here we don't do CT for Covid (would be even slower), just plain old X-ray.
- caycep 6y agoI think it may be more of a "blue sky" research type thing. Not practical now by all means - human eyeballs are better. But in the future, if the use case becomes such that automated CT detection has a market...someone who invested in this early would hold the patents, copyrights on the libraries, etc.