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The Applications of Biosensing and Artificial Intelligence Technologies for Rapid Detection and Diagnosis of COVID-19 in Remote Setting

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Diagnostic Strategies for COVID-19 and other Coronaviruses

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COVID-19 is a new strain of coronavirus that had affected nations at a global scale. With an unprecedented high infection and mortality rate, the World Health Organization had declared this novel virus as a pandemic phenomenon in March 2020. Due to the seriousness of this situation, efforts to control and surveillance of this emerging disease are currently of global interest. This chapter will focus on analytical performance of biosensor and artificial intelligent (AI) technologies for the development of robust sensor to detect COVID-19. The future outlooks of biosensor and AI to be employed remotely for COVID-19 detection and diagnosis will also be discussed.

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Lim, S.A., Lim, T.H., Ahmad, A.N. (2020). The Applications of Biosensing and Artificial Intelligence Technologies for Rapid Detection and Diagnosis of COVID-19 in Remote Setting. In: Chandra, P., Roy, S. (eds) Diagnostic Strategies for COVID-19 and other Coronaviruses. Medical Virology: From Pathogenesis to Disease Control. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6006-4_6

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