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Tencent and Chinese scientists use deep learning to predict fatal COVID-19 cases – Yahoo News Australia
This week, the team unveiled a deep learning-based model that can predict the risk of coronavirus patients developing critical illness. The details were published in Nature Communications, recounting how the lab devised the model based on a cohort of 1,590 p…
Tech firms around the world are in overdrive to help battle the coronavirus pandemic. Research showed that 6.5% of COVID-19 patients can suddenly progress to serious illness, and among them the mortality rate can be as high as 49%. Therefore one of the key tasks for health authorities is to identify and treat patients who may develop severe or fatal syndromes early on.
That’s what has been underway at a research team jointly established by Tencent AI Lab and a group of Chinese public health sci…
