Studies in health technology and informatics
May 27, 2021
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has become the most impactful pandemic of the past century. The SARS-CoV-2 virus has spread rapidly across the globe affecting and straining global health systems. More than 2 million people have died from COVID-19 (as o...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 27, 2021
Medical imaging offers great potential for COVID-19 diagnosis and monitoring. Our work introduces an automated pipeline to segment areas of COVID-19 infection in CT scans using deep convolutional neural networks. Furthermore, we evaluate the performa...
Rapid screening of red blood cells for active infection of COVID-19 is presented using a compact and field-portable, 3D-printed shearing digital holographic microscope. Video holograms of thin blood smears are recorded, individual red blood cells are...
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
May 1, 2021
In the current pandemic, lung ultrasound (LUS) played a useful role in evaluating patients affected by COVID-19. However, LUS remains limited to the visual inspection of ultrasound data, thus negatively affecting the reliability and reproducibility o...
New York City quickly became an epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic. An ability to triage patients was needed due to a sudden and massive increase in patients during the COVID-19 pandemic as healthcare providers incurred an exponential increase in wor...
The world was unprepared for the COVID-19 pandemic, and recovery is likely to be a long process. Robots have long been heralded to take on dangerous, dull, and dirty jobs, often in environments that are unsuitable for humans. Could robots be used to ...
In 2020, the new type of coronal pneumonitis became a pandemic in the world, and has firstly been reported in Wuhan, China. Chest CT is a vital component in the diagnostic algorithm for patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 infection. Therefo...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Mar 23, 2021
Serological rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) are widely used across pathologies, often providing users a simple, binary result (positive or negative) in as little as 5 to 20 min. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, new RDTs for identifying SAR...
MOTIVATION: The epidemic at the beginning of this year, due to a new virus in the coronavirus family, is causing many deaths and is bringing the world economy to its knees. Moreover, situations of this kind are historically cyclical. The symptoms and...
OBJECTIVE: The diagnosis of COVID-19 is based on the detection of SARS-CoV-2 in respiratory secretions, blood, or stool. Currently, reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) is the most commonly used method to test for SARS-CoV-2.
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