The Emerging Role of Artificial Intelligence in the Fight Against COVID-19

Aruni Ghose; Sabyasachi Roy; Nikhil Vasdev; Jonathon Olsburgh; Prokar Dasgupta

doi:10.1016/j.eururo.2020.09.031

The Emerging Role of Artificial Intelligence in the Fight Against COVID-19

Eur Urol. 2020 Dec;78(6):775-776. doi: 10.1016/j.eururo.2020.09.031. Epub 2020 Sep 17.

Authors

Aruni Ghose¹, Sabyasachi Roy², Nikhil Vasdev³, Jonathon Olsburgh⁴, Prokar Dasgupta⁵

Affiliations

¹ Medway NHS Foundation Trust, Gillingham, UK.
² Applied Intelligence, Accenture, London, UK.
³ Department of Urology, Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire Urological Cancer Centre, Lister Hospital Stevenage, School of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UKE.
⁴ Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
⁵ Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, London, UK. Electronic address: prokar.dasgupta@kcl.ac.uk.

Abstract

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has generated large volumes of clinical data that can be an invaluable resource towards answering a number of important questions for this and future pandemics. Artificial intelligence can have an important role in analysing such data to identify populations at higher risk of COVID-19-related urological pathologies and to suggest treatments that block viral entry into cells by interrupting the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2-transmembrane serine protease 2 (ACE2-TMPRSS2) pathway.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Artificial Intelligence*
Big Data
COVID-19 / diagnosis*
COVID-19 / prevention & control
Humans
SARS-CoV-2
Symptom Assessment
Urology*