Coronavirus (COVID-19) has changed everyone’s lives in a matter of a couple months and has left many of us stuck inside. Thankfully, the machine learning community is working to help fight this virus. Many data scientists and machine learning engineers strongly believe the community of machine learning can help speed the process and eliminate the impact caused by COVID-19 with all the data being collected.
Structure of Proteins
Applications are being developed to predict the structure of proteins and each of their interactions with different chemical compounds to implement new vaccines or specific drugs. Methods are heavily relying on deep learning (a subset of machine learning in artificial intelligence that has networks capable of learning unsupervised from data that is unstructured), to model unique molecules and molecular interactions.
Infection Rates
Data scientists and machine learning engineers are forecasting infection and spread rates of the virus to benefit hospitals to better their planning resources and responses. There is not a significant amount of models for this method, as documents have not been released publicly as much as other methods of machine learning dealing with the coronavirus. One model is trying to predict if a patient who is infected with COVID-19 would survive the virus based on their age and other important risk factors. This can help people who should isolate themselves from the virus more than others.
Social Media
Data scientists are mining (the process of extracting usable data) from social media providers for relevant information on COVID-19. The information contains the symptoms and spread of the coronavirus through the data of social media. Methods of detection and prediction of this virus are being conducted through social networking sites.
Conclusion
There are many potential useful applications of machine learning to stop the spread of COVID-19, but many of these applications are in early stages of development. Many people in the machine learning community believe that with the use of healthcare data, machine learning can play a huge role in the end of this virus and future pandemics.
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