BIDS Consulting Data Scientist and LBL Computational Research Scientist Dani Ushizima is working with a team at Berkeley Lab to evaluate and improve the accuracy of CT scans to diagnose COVID-19.
The American medical community has been skeptical of using CT scans to diagnose COVID-19, because the abnormalities on the lungs of COVID-19 patients often look very similar to other infections and upper respiratory illnesses, including influenza, H1N1, other SARS viruses, and MERS.