New Delhi: Department of Science and Technology (DST) supported by AI-based technology has emerged that can check chest x-ray images on WhatsApp to identify Covid-19 in suspected patients.
It is used to detect it at the initial stage in Indian countryside.
According to Soni Soni, Co-Founder and CEO of Arpark (AI & Robotics Technology Park), made ‘Xraysetu’, this technology is easily accessible and is a WhatsApp-based playback service that allows quick identification of Covid patients who are suspected of using the AI ​​Chest AI algorithm.
This allows doctors to identify covid patients in the early stages and save lives.
Tested and validated with more than 1,25,000 X-Ray images of the National Institute of Health, UK, and more than 1,000 Indian Covid patients in 10 months, Xraysetu can detect low-resolution X-Ray images on WhatsApp.
“On their career journey, radiologists see thousands of X-rays and identify problems.
Around after 5-8 years, they might see two X-Ray Lakh images.
So we decided to teach AI about how to identify.
Lungs and if There was a problem, said Soni.
He stated that the main challenge of Covid is how it affects the lungs.
In this case, patients must depend on oxygen in hospitals or ventilators.
“Through X-rays, we can find it that the lungs are Not in a large condition and therefore treatment must begin.
It was the idea that I, and Chiranjib Bhattacharyya from the Indian Science Institute (IISC) and Geta Manjunath from Niramai Health Analytix began to work.
“He explained that they had little data and had to come up with a new technique to see the X-ray image.” Xraysetu helps rural doctors to identify Covid at the initial stage and also help them detect 14 other lung disorders.
Soni said that to carry out a health check, every doctor will be asked to visit www.xraysetu.com and click the ‘Try Free Xraysetu Beta’ button.
They can also send x-ray images at number 8046163838 via WhatsApp directly.
The platform will then redirect the person to another page, where it can choose to be involved with the WhatSapp-based chatbot via the web or smartphone application.
Doctors can take pictures on their cellphones from the chest x-ray of a suspected patient and send to Xraysetu bot and get results in minutes.
“More than 7,500 users have tried it from all over India,” said Soni, which added that this has the potential to make the best X-ray image interpretation system in the world.