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Dynamic Prediction of SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR status on Chest Radiographs using Deep Learning Enabled Radiogenomics

Chiu, W. H. K.; Poplavskiy, D.; Zhang, S.; Yu, P. L. H.; Kuo, M. D.

2021-01-15 radiology and imaging
10.1101/2021.01.10.21249370 medRxiv
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Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) is the gold standard for diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection, but requires specialized equipment and reagents and suffers from long turnaround times. While valuable, chest imaging currently only detects COVID-19 pneumonia, but if it can predict actual RT-PCR SARS-CoV-2 status is unknown. Radiogenomics may provide an effective and accurate RT-PCR-based surrogate. We describe a deep learning radiogenomics (DLR) model (RadGen) that predicts a patient's RT-PCR SARS-CoV-2 status solely from their frontal chest radiograph (CXR).

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