[Application of artificial intelligence in prevention and control of COVID-19 in Guangzhou city].

Journal: Zhonghua yu fang yi xue za zhi [Chinese journal of preventive medicine]
Published Date:

Abstract

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, it has spread rapidly throughout the country and even in the world. As a first tier city, Guangzhou is also the South Gate of China, with large population mobility and severe and complex prevention and control situation. Guangzhou CDC, together with Tencent and Alibaba Cloud, has made full use of its artificial intelligence technology to carry out a series of practices in case transmission chain analysis, close contact and other key personnel management, front-line staff prevention and control skills training and convenience services. Through the application of artificial intelligence in different scenarios, the difficulties and challenges in the prevention and control are solved, and the speed of epidemic prevention and control is increased.

Authors

  • Y H Zhang
    Department of Radiology, People's Hospital of Qinghai Province, Xining 810000, China.
  • H Wang
    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, 500 West 120th Street, New York, NY 10027, USA.
  • X J Wu
    Department of Primary Public Health, Guangzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou 510440, China.
  • J Mao
    Shenzhen Tencent Computer System Co. Ltd.Medical Information and Services,Shanghai 200030,China.
  • Z Y Yang
    Alibaba Cloud Computing Co. Ltd.,Guangzhou 510000,China.
  • Q L Jing
    Department of Infectious Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou 510440, China.
  • L Luo
    The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China - Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hefei, Anhui, China.
  • Y Ma
    School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150090, China.
  • M M Ma
    Department of Infectious Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou 510440, China.
  • Z B Zhang
    Guangzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou 510440, China.