UW researchers develop AI software to help identify high risk COVID-19 patients

Artificial Intelligence may become another tool in the fight against COVID-19. 

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed computer software designed to predict which COVID-19 patients are most at risk of dying or developing kidney injuries during hospitalization.

“There is tremendous potential for predictive AI models like this as they can greatly aid clinicians in identifying who needs help the most, and most urgently, to increase survival rates and reduce rates of serious injury,” said Alexander Wong, a professor of Systems Design Engineering at Waterloo.

The hope is the new technology will help healthcare workers identify who needs care in an efficient and effective manner and hopefully reduce the heavy burden those healthcare workers are under when it comes to a growing number of COVID patients.

Looking beyond the pandemic, those behind the program say it can be easily transferred to other diseases. 

An in-depth look at the research can be found here: https://github.com/h-aboutalebi/CovidBiochem.