Artificial Intelligence Application in COVID-19 Diagnosis and Prediction
16 Pages Posted: 27 Feb 2020
Minfei Peng
Wenzhou Medical University - Affiliated Taizhou Hospital
Jie Yang
University of Macau - Department of Computer and Information Science
Abstract
Background: On December 8, 2019, the first new coronavirus case was discovered in Wuhan, China, and an intensive outbreak incepted in the next month (about January 20). Virologicalists and epidemiologists predict that it will reach a peak in about 90 days and fade away till the end in about 4 months (Early April), the entire epidemic will terminate in early May. The daily rise in confirmed cases and the increase in the number of outbreak communities on the epidemic map always hit the nerves of panic. On January 31, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared China ’s new coronavirus epidemic an “public health emergency of international concern” (PHEIC). At this time, citizens from multiple nations including China express their grave concerns on the diagnosis, prediction and heal of the virus contagion.