In order to accelerate the diagnosis and effectively treat COVID-19 patients, DRDO's Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR) has developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) based COVID-19 detection application software ATMAN using the chest X-rays.

CAIR, Director, Dr. U.K. Singh was quoted as saying that the development of the diagnostic tool was part of DRDO’s effort to help clinicians and partners on the frontline to help rapidly diagnose and effectively treat COVID-19 patients. He explained that with the limited testing facilities for coronavirus, there is a rush to develop AI tools for quick analysis using X-rays. The tool will help in automatically detecting radiological findings indicative of Covid-19 in seconds, enabling physicians and radiologists to more effectively triage the cases, especially in an emergency environment.

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