Asada Ken, Komatsu Masaaki, Shimoyama Ryo, Takasawa Ken, Shinkai Norio, Sakai Akira, Bolatkan Amina, Yamada Masayoshi, Takahashi Satoshi, Machino Hidenori, Kobayashi Kazuma, Kaneko Syuzo, Hamamoto Ryuji
Cancer Translational Research Team, RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, 1-4-1 Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-0027, Japan.
Division of Medical AI Research and Development, National Cancer Center Research Institute, 5-1-1 Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0045, Japan.
J Pers Med. 2021 Sep 4;11(9):886. doi: 10.3390/jpm11090886.
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic began at the end of December 2019, giving rise to a high rate of infections and causing COVID-19-associated deaths worldwide. It was first reported in Wuhan, China, and since then, not only global leaders, organizations, and pharmaceutical/biotech companies, but also researchers, have directed their efforts toward overcoming this threat. The use of artificial intelligence (AI) has recently surged internationally and has been applied to diverse aspects of many problems. The benefits of using AI are now widely accepted, and many studies have shown great success in medical research on tasks, such as the classification, detection, and prediction of disease, or even patient outcome. In fact, AI technology has been actively employed in various ways in COVID-19 research, and several clinical applications of AI-equipped medical devices for the diagnosis of COVID-19 have already been reported. Hence, in this review, we summarize the latest studies that focus on medical imaging analysis, drug discovery, and therapeutics such as vaccine development and public health decision-making using AI. This survey clarifies the advantages of using AI in the fight against COVID-19 and provides future directions for tackling the COVID-19 pandemic using AI techniques.
2019年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）大流行始于2019年12月底，导致全球感染率居高不下，并造成与COVID-19相关的死亡。它最初在中国武汉被报道，从那时起，不仅全球各国领导人、组织以及制药/生物技术公司，而且研究人员都致力于克服这一威胁。人工智能（AI）的应用最近在国际上激增，并已应用于许多问题的不同方面。使用AI的好处现在已被广泛接受，许多研究在疾病分类、检测、预测甚至患者预后等医学研究任务中都取得了巨大成功。事实上，AI技术已在COVID-19研究中以各种方式得到积极应用，并且已经报道了几种配备AI的医疗设备在COVID-19诊断中的临床应用。因此，在本综述中，我们总结了最新的研究，这些研究聚焦于使用AI进行医学影像分析、药物发现以及疫苗开发和公共卫生决策等治疗方法。这项调查阐明了在抗击COVID-19中使用AI的优势，并为使用AI技术应对COVID-19大流行提供了未来方向。
