Recently, chest computed tomography (CT) has shown utility for COVID-19 diagnosis. In this study, we developed Deep COVID DeteCT (DCD), a deep learning convolutional neural network (CNN) that uses the entire chest CT volume to automatically predict COVID-19 (COVID+) from non-COVID-19 (...
Researchers have developed a new test for COVID-19 that combines the speed of over-the-counter antigen tests with the accuracy of PCR tests.
Getting a COVID-19 test could soon be as easy as breathing into a tube. A startup in Singapore has developed a new screening tool that can analyze people's breath to determine whether or not they are infected within a minute. The company hopes to get approval for comme...
A quick, non-invasive test to detect Corona disease would be a tremendous game changer in combatting this pandemic. This might become reality soon: a Singapore start-up has developed a real-time COVID-19 breath test based on our PTR-TOFMS trace gas analyzers. Breathonix, a spin-off from...
Russian scientists have registered the first testing system to detect the ‘British’ strain of Covid-19. The news comes from the country’s health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor, whose epidemiology research institute developed the kit.
Thenew test, developed by the University's Zepler Institute for Photonics and Nanoelectronics (ZIPN), can detect the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus which causes COVID-19 in 10-15 minutes. The test involves taking a patient's nasal swab and mixing it with a solution in a tube. Working...
An international research team involving the universities of Paraná (Brazil) and Tübingen (Germany) has developed a rapid test that can reliably identify COVID-19 antibodies in the blood within minutes. As the researchers report in the journal ACS Sens
The per-scan sensitivity and specificity for detecting COVID-19 in the independent test set was 90% (95% confidence interval [CI]: 83%, 94%; 114 of 127 scans) and 96% (95% CI: 93%, 98%; 294 of 307 scans), respectively, with an area under the receiver operating characteristic ...
Mediven® has two ranges of ProDetect® test kits for the detection of COVID-19. The professional use range using either one of two types of samples; oral fluid and nasopharyngeal swab whereas self-test kits using either saliva or nasal sample. To ensure quality...
“This test is as sensitive as the gold standard, highly sensitive PCR tests, but it’s as fast as the antigen tests that are used for quick analysis of COVID-19,” Nguyen says. The prototypes developed in this study have sensors on the inside of the mask to detect a user’s st...