Facebook, NYU Langone Health Use AI to Predict Health of Covid-19 Patients

They built 3 machine learning models for analyzing X-rays

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Facebook’s use of machine learning to predict the types of content users are most interested in seeing in their News Feeds has been chronicled often through the years, but the social network is also working on potential ways to predict the treatment and resource needs of Covid-19 patients as part of its ongoing collaboration with NYU Langone Health’s Predictive Analytics Unit and Department of Radiology.

The two parties developed three machine learning models that may be able to help doctors predict how their patients’ conditions will develop and ensure that they have sufficient resources on hand to care for those patients:

  • A model for predicting patient deterioration based on a single X-ray.
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