NIH Will Use AI, X-Rays to Spur Personalized Covid Treatments

Scientists at the NIH are pioneering better Covid-19 diagnostic methods using artificial intelligence and stacks of digital lung and heart images through a new project the agency announced Wednesday.

The National Institutes of Health created a new center that will collect medical images of infected patients and other data in an effort to help doctors tailor Covid-19 treatments to specific people.

With images and data all in one place, specialists will be able to find patterns in how the virus affects the body and create better procedures to treat it. Doctors eventually hope to translate that information into algorithms to ...