AI diagnosis is just what the doctor ordered

A man in his 70s came to the Jiwan Jyoti Christian hospital in Robertsganj, Uttar Pradesh, early this year, complaining of a fever that had not gone down in months, with no doctor offering an effective diagnosis. Dawn Kuruvilla, consultant physician at the hospital, too was initially befuddled. But a chest X-Ray he prescribed set off alarms on the qTrack dashboard, an AI application developed by Mumbai-based startup Qure.ai that uses deep learning to analyse chest X-rays for abnormalities. It revealed that the patient’s lungs were infected by TB bacteria, later confirmed by a CT scan.