Covid update: 04 February 2021
04 Feb 2021
A round up of this week's coronavirus-related news and countermeasures from the photonics industry.
Icovid was set up in March, 2020, by UZ Brussel, KU Leuven, icometrix and ETRO, an imec research group of VUB. Professor Jef Vandemeulebroucke of ETRO commented, âWhat started as a local project is now being rolled out in 800 hospitals in Europe and supported by excellent research centers all over Europe.
âWith 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 from Covid-19 even more quickly, and to determine the further care path of the patient faster and better through prognostic models.â