Belgian initiative for AI lung scan analysis in fight against COVID-19 goes European

Icovid is being rolled out across Europe and is on the OECD shortlist for AI initiatives against current and future pandemics. The Belgian initiative icovid, which supports radiologists in the assessment of CT images of the lungs of COVID-19 patients, has grown into a multicentre European project, co-funded by the EU Horizon 2020 programme. icovid was set up in March by UZ Brussel, KU Leuven, icometrix and ETRO, an imec research group of VUB. Professor Jef Vandemeulebroucke of ETRO: " What started as a local project is now being rolled out in 800 hospitals in Europe and supported by excellent research centres all over Europe. With icolung, we can detect COVID-19 patients at an early stage and quantify the extent of lung lesions. Meanwhile, we are further improving the AI software to identify lung damage as COVID-19 even more quickly, and to determine the further care path of the patient faster and better through prognostic models. ? icolung free for all hospitals in Europe icolung was certified in April and is currently being used by over 75 hospitals worldwide and has analysed over 35,000 lung CT scans.