AI tool outperforms existing methods for identifying severe childhood pneumonia

Pneumonia remains the leading infectious cause of death among children under 5 worldwide, claiming almost 1 million lives each year.

Researchers at University College Dublin have developed an artificial intelligence tool that can more accurately identify young children with pneumonia at serious risk of needing hospital treatment.

Found to significantly outperform existing risk assessment methods used to identify children who require urgent referral to the hospital, the BIOTOPE algorithm has the potential to save lives in low-resource health care settings. ...