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Richa Singh and team received the RAKSHAK grant for project on
‘AI-driven diagnosis of COVID-19 using X-ray images’
In the face of the SARS-CoV2 pandemic, it has become essential to perform mass screening and testing of patients. Richa Singh and her team have developed an AI-driven diagnosis of COVID-19 using X-ray images. The project has been supported by DST-RAKSHAK.
X-rays are amongst the most popular, cheap and widely available imaging technology across the world, and can be used to detect COVID-19 pneumonia in patients through chest radiographs. Experiments conducted on different chest radiograph datasets with multi-task deep network algorithm, learns the abnormalities present in the chest X-ray images to differentiate between a COVID-19 affected lung and a non-COVID-19 affected lung.
Contact info:
richa@iitj.ac.in, saksham.saxena@investindia.org.in
DST-RAKSHAK has funded IIT Jodhpur for campus RAKSHAK
project
The COVID-19 pandemic has placed a massive burden on the public health system. Restrictions to contain the COVID-19 spread have come with significant cost to livelihoods and have created massive disruptions in education. In view of this, and to recover from the impact, colleges and university campuses partially reopened just before the March 2021 surge with safe operating procedures put in place. In this context, it is important to have dashboard frameworks for situational awareness and frameworks of testing, contact tracing, computational epidemiology that can enable bio-surveillance and swift remedial actions in case of outbreaks. The population in large campuses is in thousands. The student community may be predominantly residential, some staff may reside on campus, but staff, students, contractors, and vendors move in and out of large campuses with the potential risk of spreading the infection. There is, thus, a need for a decision support framework that can assist campus administrators to decide on the safe levels of operation.
The campus RAKSHAK solution framework, as a contact-tracing, bio-surveillance, scenario exploration, and decision support platform, can provide situational awareness to campus administrators, generate connectivity, mobility, hotspot insights, save testing costs, explore scenarios for safe operation and assist campus administrators with their decisions. It is important that all these components work together as a harmonious whole for maximum effectiveness.
Contact info:
suman@iitj.ac.in, saksham.saxena@investindia.org.in
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NATION’S S&T EFFORTS AGAINST COVID-19