There is still an urgent need to develop effective treatments to help minimize the cases of severe COVID-19. A number of tools have now been developed and applied to address these issues, such as the use of non-contrast chest computed tomography (CT) for evaluation and grading of the associated lung damage. Here we used a deep learning approach for predicting the outcome of 1078 patients admitted into the Baqiyatallah Hospital in Tehran, Iran, suffering from COVID-19 infections in the first wave of the pandemic. These were classified into two groups of non-severe and severe cases according to features on their CT scans with accuracies of approximately 0.90. We suggest that incorporation of molecular and/or clinical features, such as multiplex immunoassay or laboratory findings, will increase accuracy and sensitivity of the model for COVID-19 -related predictions.
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Sahebkar, A., Abbasifard, M., Chaibakhsh, S., Guest, P. C., Pourhoseingholi, M. A., Vahedian-Azimi, A., … Jamialahmadi, T. (2022). A Deep Learning Approach to Identify Chest Computed Tomography Features for Prediction of SARS-CoV-2 Infection Outcomes. In Methods in Molecular Biology (Vol. 2511, pp. 395–404). Humana Press Inc. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2395-4_30
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