Researchers at the Sharif University of Technology have designed and developed an AI-assisted system that can diagnose the novel coronavirus in a few minutes. The ‘COVID-19 Diagnostic System’ uses artificial intelligence algorithms via chest CT scans to detect coronavirus in patients with 97 percent accuracy. The Iranian-made system was unveiled on Saturday with the presence of Dr. Sorena Sattari, Iran’s Vice President for Science and Technology. Dr. Hamidreza Rabiei, the project manager and a member of the World Health Organization AI committee, said the system can diagnose COVID-19 in less than two minutes. “We studied chest CT scans of healthy people, COVID-19 patients and those who were not healthy but were not infected by COVID-19 for a month. Rabiei stressed that the system can serve as a suitable assistant for doctors, adding “even in cases where the virus cannot be diagnosed by a doctor, the system can do the job.”