TY - CHAP
T1 - Artificial Intelligence in the Fight Against the COVID-19 Pandemic
T2 - Opportunities and Challenges
AU - Abd-Alrazaq, Alaa
AU - Schneider, Jens
AU - Alhuwail, Dari
AU - Hamdi, Mounir
AU - Al-Kuwari, Saif
AU - Al-Thani, Dena
AU - Househ, Mowafa
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The world is witnessing unprecedented times as the novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has already conquered and locked down most of the globe. While some indications suggest that the COVID-19 curve is starting to flatten, as of May 2020, we still see constant linear growth in cases and fatalities. Even worse, it is speculated that the situation may further deteriorate with a possible second wave. As governments around the world continue to impose increasingly stringent measures to fight and limit the spread of the pandemic, Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools can play a significant role in the public health surveillance and diagnostics relating to COVID-19. AI is being heavily leveraged in the diagnosis of COVID-19, prediction of its severity for infection, and the discovery of related drugs and vaccines. However, several challenges can impede the exploitation of AI amid the COVID-19 pandemic such as lack of data, privacy, and maturity of AI applications. This chapter discusses the main AI opportunities and challenges in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
AB - The world is witnessing unprecedented times as the novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has already conquered and locked down most of the globe. While some indications suggest that the COVID-19 curve is starting to flatten, as of May 2020, we still see constant linear growth in cases and fatalities. Even worse, it is speculated that the situation may further deteriorate with a possible second wave. As governments around the world continue to impose increasingly stringent measures to fight and limit the spread of the pandemic, Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools can play a significant role in the public health surveillance and diagnostics relating to COVID-19. AI is being heavily leveraged in the diagnosis of COVID-19, prediction of its severity for infection, and the discovery of related drugs and vaccines. However, several challenges can impede the exploitation of AI amid the COVID-19 pandemic such as lack of data, privacy, and maturity of AI applications. This chapter discusses the main AI opportunities and challenges in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85112521163&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-67303-1_15
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-67303-1_15
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85112521163
T3 - Lecture Notes in Bioengineering
SP - 185
EP - 196
BT - Lecture Notes in Bioengineering
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
ER -