Human Factors

The emergence and spread of infectious diseases, like COVID-19, are on the rise. Can you identify patterns between population density and COVID-19 cases and identify factors that could help predict hotspots of disease spread?

Dr. Li - Your Virtual Doctor

Summary

Many countries have been struggling to diagnose and follow up people with the new coronavirus symptoms. Based on available data and scientific research, we’ve developed Dr Li - an artificial intelligence able to friendly communicate with people through WhatsApp, doing a quick screening to identify potential infected and due to social isolation with an assessment, directing if necessary to psychological monitoring. He is also capable of listen to a record of the user’s breathing, the sound frequency is analyzed to identify possible lung problems, generating pre-diagnoses. All things considered, we collect and store data at every single step of the process so we can later inform our health a

How We Addressed This Challenge

Our project is intended to assist in the identification of infected people, as well as facilitate the access to health services through a simple process using the WhatsApp application. Using technology we can answer to nearly every family and give each of them a suitable treatment, optimizing our health system as a hole. Also the data we can provide will feed further investigations that are simply impossible in the moment due to the lack of consistent data. With a better intelligence we can do a bigger difference.

Check the link below to speak with Dr. Li: (only pt-BR)

https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=5511930200052&text=oi

How We Developed This Project

We got inspired to serve and guide people in this uncertain moment everyone is going through, offering our idea to stand for the world and help our people.

We needed to create something that was accessible and economically viable to the population. Through artificial intelligence we followed Brazilian families up, making trials through WHO metrics we clarified  fake news, diagnosed and guided the necessary measures. We used ZIP code to build a database and map spikes in contamination, number of people per houses and risk groups, inputs to further studies.

We used NASA data which have satellite images and geography data to guide the bot to points where more people with contamination risks are more likely to be.

The chatbot was developed by Nodejs, hosted in a AWS server and its voice processor was programmed in Python, converting audios to spectrogram, training a neural net made by Tensorflow.

Hosted in IBM Watson to recognize pulmonary problems.

We had more difficulties in collecting data to realize screening  process, pulmonary exams and formulate psychological questions, besides the social isolation forbid us to gather personally.

You can also check our ppt presentation for more details:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11czbKFrlzhmF4fi_PQKaWFMzup20HfDyqUTMPwXQyXs/edit

Project Demo

Check out pitch elevator video:

https://youtu.be/hF1cC4xmdUE

Data & Resources

We used the following data provided by:

  • sedac Global COVID-19

https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/mapping/popest/covid-19/

Used as demographic complementary data for risk zones based on cases and deaths for each 100.000 people, as well as the analysis of age, sex and urbanization distributions.

  • NASA EOSDIS Worldview

https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/?v=-125.39669136435657,-49.40183871264218,9.60330863564343,16.48097378735782&t=2016-03-13-T00%3A00%3A00Z&l=Reference_Labels(hidden),Reference_Features(hidden),Coastlines,VIIRS_Black_Marble,VIIRS_SNPP_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor(hidden),MODIS_Aqua_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor(hidden),MODIS_Terra_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor(hidden)

Used as complementary data for insights, identifying different levels of human activity and thus a projection of the virus behaviour. The idea is to look for possible hotspots of the pathogen.

Tags
#artifialintelligence #drli #IA #A #familyassistant
Global Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Global Judging process.