The Wuhan virus outbreak in one of the most populated countries is now posing a threat to the whole world. As per the reports, the outbreak of the coronavirus started in Wuhan has claimed more than 100 lives till now.
Wuhan Virus Outreach Predicted By AI before the Government
A Toronto based Startup that specializes in the AI-driven health monitoring platform, which processes billions of data had alerted the clients of the virus outbreak on Dec 31st last year. The AI startup has given the alert even before the warning from WHO and the various US centers for Disease control and prevention.
Bluedot Startup predicted the Wuhan Outbreak
As per the company in an announcement it said uses big data analytics to track and anticipate the spread of the world’s most dangerous infectious diseases.” The company also received the funding in an investment round of around 10 million dollars.
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Bluedot Uses ML and AI to Predict Disease Outbreak
Bluedot uses natural language processing and machine learning techniques to process global news reports, data about disease outbreaks and airline data, etc. The specialists use the automated results and help the company to send out the alerts to the public when something alarming is found out.
The company says that it tracks and uses the information to help diagnose the disease to spread. The company correctly predicts that when the Virus can spread across the regions outside China. It can spread in the areas of Bangkok, Taipei, Seoul, and Tokyo, etc.
Kamran Khan, C0-Founder of Bluedot talks about the Company Approach
The founder of the Company Kamran Khan said that on one hand, the world is rapidly changing, where diseases are emerging and spreading faster. On the other hand, we happen to have growing access to data we can use…to generate insights and spread them more quickly than the diseases spread themselves.”
Bluedot uses algorithms that work on ticketing data
The Epidemiologist and the Co-Founder of the Bluedot, a startup, use the news reports and airline data to estimate and warn about the outbreak and spread of diseases like the Wuhan virus outbreak in China. As per Kamran Khan, the company’s algorithm does not use social media data and posts. The company uses the international global airline’s data to predict where the Virus can reach. It also predicts when and how fast the virus can spread.