Impact of Radiological Techniques in the Diagnosis of COVID-19

Abstract

The outbreak of 2019-nCOV around the globe at an exponential transmission rate has led to the declaration of
COVID-2019 as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) by World Health Organization
(WHO). It is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome leading to lung infection eventually to death. Lung
imaging provides insight about the extent of infection and adopt treatment accordingly even though a false positive
in standard techniques such as RT-PCR and RAD tests. Hence, this review elaborates on the origin of nCoV-2019
and various radiological techniques to identify the rate of infection. Finally, the role of artificial intelligence in
processing the lung images is outlinedalong with the combined effort by the individual, media and healthcare
organization to substantially limit the outbreak.