Know your COVID-19 positive condition in 20 seconds using AI

Chairman of the Hong Kong Biotechnology Organization Professor Albert Cheung-Hoi YU instructed the team to use AI technology to create an online platform. Patients upload 3 photos (improved to 1 now) of the same ART result, and the severity of their infections can be determined in 20 seconds, which helps to decide whether to seek medical treatment or be admitted to the hospital, as well as to make good use of medical resources. Patients who are negative in the early stage of the disease can also turn to traditional Chinese medicine and self-isolate. Earlier, when Chairman Professor Albert Cheung-Hoi YU and his team were interviewed by Hong Kong Wen Wei Po, the reporter immediately conducted an actual test and uploaded a series of 6-day ART result photos of a patient diagnosed on the 13th of March, after submitting their personal information such as infection time and symptoms, our AI system could immediately analyze the data.

On the 13th of March, the patient was tested COVID-19 positive (2 lines) by performing ART for the first time. The system found that the antigen index (which can be understood as the virus level) on that day was about 90, which belonged to the "severe" infection stage. The patient also took an antigen rapid test on the third day after the positive result. The system showed that the antigen index on that day rose to 124 (37% relative to the number of antigens). On the fifth day after the diagnosis, the antigen value dropped sharply to 66, and the condition gradually receded. A reporter from Hong Kong Wen Wei Po learned from the patient. He stated that he consciously recovered his spirits and was no longer sluggish. At this time, his infection level had quietly shifted from "severe" to "high" stage. The patient continued to be ART tested until the 9th day after the diagnosis, and there was still a very weak red T line on the ART device that was invisible to the naked eye. However, according to the analysis data of AI, his infection level was "relatively low" at that time. The antigen value in his analysis report was 12.65, meaning that on the 9th day after the infection, the virus was still present - he was not really "negative". He could already be spreading COVID-19 if he went outside at that time.

Professor Albert Cheung-Hoi YU, who is a neurobiologist and molecular biologist himself, said that at the beginning of the outbreak of COVID-19 three years ago, he had begun to study the relationship between nucleic acid testing and the new coronavirus, and accumulated a lot of resources and data. At the beginning of this year, I came up with this idea and spent two months with the team to develop this rapid measurement and analysis system.

Data-based disease information to know the degree of infection as well as a small quick test device, why is this scientist who owns many technical inventions and a total of 72 world patents fascinated by this? He explained: "Quantitative data is very important, not just looking at 'two lines' or 'one line', I found that when there is more virus in the body of the infected person, the higher viral load, the higher antigen index, the stronger the T line is (the line becomes redder). As long as the condition of the infected person is digitized and analyzed by our AI system, the virus index of the infection can be determined anytime and anywhere. ”

Ref.: Hong Kong Wen Wei Po reporter - Wen Liyuan 26/03/2022

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