AI-based app being developed for malaria testing- Dr Anthony

As part of its effort to eliminate the disease, the Government has been working to develop an Artificial Intelligence-based application to be used for the testing of the mosquito-borne disease, malaria.

This is being done through a partnership with Harvard University.

“We have been working on an app where this AI step we are developing will be able to read malaria slides,” Minister of Health Dr Frank Anthony said on Saturday.

He was at the time delivering remarks at an event.

According to Dr Anthony, the application has been tested in Region Nine and it has proven to be 99 per cent accurate.

“…It’s about 99 per cent accurate and we are hoping that once we get more tests results, what we have developed and here in Guyana that this now will be used in other parts of the world where there is malaria,” Dr Anthony said.

The hope, he said, is once the application is up and running it will be utilised to help other countries with malaria-related challenges.

“So this application can be used to help other countries that are having a malaria problem but it would have been worked on, tested, developed here with our partners at Harvard,” he said.