After developing an application supposed to list cases of coronavirus, Alibaba looked at an artificial intelligence capable of detecting Covid-19 infections faster than the medical profession, reports the media Nikkei Asian Review.
AliHealth, the pharmaceutical subsidiary of the Chinese giant, seeks to improve diagnostics by having medical scans studied by an artificial intelligence capable of detecting points of interest to monitor or anomalies.
AI has been trained to identify cases of coronavirus using a database comprising several thousand medical images and medical data from patients in Wuhan, the starting point of the epidemic.
AI is already used in Chinese hospitals
Alibaba says its AI is operational. She would be able to determine if a person has coronavirus in less than 20 seconds and with 96% accuracy.
The Chinese giant is not the only one to be interested in the epidemic. The company Ping An has also developed an AI specializing in the coronavirus, but it would present poorer results with only 90% accuracy.
It is unclear whether either AI works as a tool in its own right to diagnose a patient with coronavirus. Does the technology developed by Alibaba make it possible to detect the virus even before the first symptoms appear or does it confirm the doctors' diagnosis? Alibaba and Ping An say their AI is already in use in Chinese medical institutes.
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