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AI-Accelerated Method Monitors COVID-19 Disease Severity Over Time from Patient Chest CT Scans

By HospiMedica International staff writers
Posted on 31 Mar 2021
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Image: AI-Accelerated Method Monitors COVID-19 Disease Severity over Time from Patient Chest CT Scans (Photo courtesy of NVIDIA)
Image: AI-Accelerated Method Monitors COVID-19 Disease Severity over Time from Patient Chest CT Scans (Photo courtesy of NVIDIA)
An AI-accelerated method could monitor COVID-19 disease severity over time from patient chest CT scans.

Researchers from NVIDIA (Santa Clara, CA, USA) and the US National Institutes of Health (NIH; Bethesda, MA, USA) studied the progression of lung opacities in chest CT images of COVID patients, and extracted insights about the temporal relationships between CT features and lab measurements. Quantifying CT opacities can tell doctors how severe a patient’s condition is. A better understanding of the progression of lung opacities in COVID patients could help inform clinical decisions in patients with pneumonia, and yield insights during clinical trials for therapies to treat the virus.

Selecting a dataset of more than 100 sequential chest CTs from 29 COVID patients from China and Italy, the researchers used an NVIDIA Clara AI segmentation model to automate the time-consuming task of segmenting the total lung in each CT scan. Expert radiologists reviewed the total lung segmentations, and manually segmented the lung opacities. To track disease progression, the researchers used generalized temporal curves, which correlated the CT imaging data with lab measurements such as white blood cell count and procalcitonin levels. They then used 3D visualizations to reconstruct the evolution of COVID opacities in one of the patients.

The team found that lung opacities appeared between one and five days before symptom onset, and peaked a day after symptoms began. They also analyzed two opacity subtypes - ground glass opacity and consolidation - and discovered that ground glass opacities appeared earlier in the disease, and persisted for a time after the resolution of the consolidation. The researchers showed how CT dynamic curves could be used as a clinical reference tool for mild COVID-19 cases, and might help spot cases that grow more severe over time. These curves could also assist clinicians in identifying chronic lung effects by flagging cases where patients have residual opacities visible in CT scans long after other symptoms dissipate.

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