Covid-Net : AI As A New Frontline Tool in COVID-19 Pandemic

Samuel A Donkor
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1 min readSep 29, 2020

It was found in early studies that patients present abnormalities in chest radiography images that are characteristic of those infected with COVID-19. Motivated by this and inspired by the open source efforts of the research community, in this episode we introduce COVID-Net — A deep convolutional neural network design tailored for the detection of COVID-19 cases from CXR images that is open source and available to the general public.

Codebase : https://github.com/samadon1/Covid-Net Original Codebase : https://github.com/lindawangg/COVID-Net

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Samuel A Donkor
CSS Knust

AI4Medicine | Astrophysicist | Astrobiologist | Thoughts, opinions and things I’ve learned.... https://sites.google.com/view/samadon