AI-MED Award: Best COVID-19 AI Solution

Best Covid-19 AI Solution – Royal Bolton Hospital, UK

When COVID-19 hit the UK, Dr. Rizwan Malik, Clinical Lead for Radiology at the Royal Bolton Hospital, was planning to test qXR, an AI-driven chest x-ray system developed by Qure.ai, to prevent patients from waiting long hours for a specialist to examine their x-rays.

Early studies revealed some severe COVID-19 cases would exhibit unique lung anomalies that are similar to viral pneumonia. Since medical facilities are not able to accommodate everyone with symptoms for a RT-PCR test, studying their chest x-rays became a triage shortcut. Dr. Malik jumped at the opportunity and proposed to re-tool qXR into a COVID-19 detection machine to assist in the initial reading of chest x-rays.

He continues to work closely with the Qure.ai team, introducing new features to improve the tool.