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Union minister, Ashwani Kumar Choubey.


Choubey assures to extend helps for establishing new software for Corona detection

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May 17th, 2020

Our Bureau/

Ashwini Choubey, minister of state, health and family welfare, has expressed hope that the indigenous software developed by IIIT, Bhagalpur to detect COVID-19 virus would be boon  in corona fighting mission. The minister also has assured for providing all possible helps for making the mission success.

Choubey conducts the meeting today.

To combat COVID-19, IIIT bhagalpur has put forward a small step in the form of software development to detect coronavirus. To discuss and decide the way forward in this direction a meeting was conducted on May 17 under the guidance of Choubey though video conferencing.

Dr. P. K. Das, Director, RMRI, Patna, Amar Prasad Reddy, Technical Advisor, Health department, Ashish Verma, Technical Advisor, Health department, Dr. Thomas Joseph, CMRI, Kalpesh Sharma, PS to minister, Prof. Arvind Choubey, Director, IIIT Bhagalpur, Dr. Sandeep Raj, Assistant professor, IIIT Bhagalpur attained the meeting while BJP leader, Arjit Shashwat Choubey was the meeting organizer.

In the meeting ,the ongoing development on this project was discussed. Prof. Arvind Choubey, has demonstrated about the currently developed software and requested for providing necessary data of X-Rays so that the software can be trained.

Director, IIIT, Bhagalpur Prof. Choubey in the meeting.

All the members have praised the initiative of IIIT Bhagalpur and encouraged to work on this project.

But Dr. P K Das has raised his concern regarding ratio of pneumonia, asymptomatic cases and it’s correlation with COVID-19 infected X-Rays data. Prof. Arvind Choubey has clarified that, software is not inclined towards asymptomatic cases and the detection is based on identifiable changes in the X-Rays data which can’t be done through normal inspection. To identify these changes and develop an accurate model and declare it as corona patients more number of labelled X-Rays data is required.

Other panel members in the meeting.

Choubey has told IIIT bhagalpur that, incorporate all the changes as suggested by the technical experts & doctors.  The technical team of health department will also help for the development of software and provide the required data for the development of corona detection software, he assured. He also assured for involving ICMR and AIMS,New Delhi in this mission.

Arjit Shashwat Choubey said that the new invention by IIIT, Bhagalpur would save time and money. “ Places like Bhagalpur presently don’t have RTPCR equipment so only screening has been conducting by rapid kit. But for confirmation of COVID-19 positive or negative , all the samples are being sent to Patna. This new invention would certainly be a miracle ,” he said.


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