Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Imaging-Based Diagnosis of COVID-19
Dinggang Shen, Yaozong Gao, Arrate Muñoz‐Barrutia, Delia Cabrera DeBuc, Gennaro Percannella
Abstract
The novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) began infecting humans in late 2019 and then turned into pandemic in the successive months spreading all over the world. At the beginning of July 2020, the global number of confirmed cases reported by the World Health Organization is above 10 million, with more than half million deaths and a rate of new cases of almost 150 000 per day.
Topics & Concepts
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Pandemic2019-20 coronavirus outbreakSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)Coronavirus InfectionsMedical imagingMedicineComputer scienceVirologyArtificial intelligencePathologyOutbreakDiseaseInfectious disease (medical specialty)COVID-19 diagnosis using AIAdvanced X-ray and CT ImagingArtificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education