Dear Colleagues, It’s been roughly four months since the last update to our COVID-Net initiative. Today, we are extremely proud to announce an evolutionary leap to the effort by way of COVID-Net CT-2. COVID-Net CT-2 was built using a number of large and diverse datasets that we painstakingly created over…

Explainability tells us how AI works, but says nothing about when it can be trusted. This limitation must be confronted. Earlier this year, in our XAI primer, we introduced the concept of explainability by way of a provocative thought experiment; namely, by asking readers to consider a major scientific advancement…

Dear Colleagues, It’s been a while since our last update regarding our COVID-Net initiative. Today, we are extremely proud to announce a new and significant update to the project: COVIDNet-S. COVIDNet-S is a suite of deep learning models designed to assess the disease severity of COVID-19. As viral procedures like…

Dear Colleague, The response to our release of COVID-Net three months ago continues to inspire us. Here are the latest updates with the project: 1.) Today we are proud to announce the release of COVIDNet-CT, a family of neural networks to detect COVID-19 by means of Computed Tomography (CT) scans…

“Imagination is the highest form of Research” — Albert Einstein On March 22nd our team announced the availability of COVID-Net (latest updates here), a neural network for COVID-19 detection using chest radiography (X-Rays). …

Dear Colleague, The response to our release of COVID-Net continues to move and inspire us. Here are the latest updates with the project: Thanks to the continued support of the global community, the total number of COVID-19 positive cases in the COVIDx dataset has grown significantly, with the test benchmark…

Dear Colleague, The response to our release of COVID-Net continues to move and inspire us. Here are the latest updates with the project: 1.) Thanks to support of the research community, the number of COVID-19 positive cases in the training and test portions of the COVIDx dataset has increased by…

Note: since this post was published there’ve been a number of developments to the project. See here for the latest. Dear Colleague, The response to our release of COVID-Net one week ago has been overwhelming. Here are the latest updates with the project: 1.) Thanks to the support and feedback…

Note: since this post was published there’ve been a number of developments to the project. See here for the latest. Dear Colleague, The global crisis brought on by COVID-19 has affected us all. Like many businesses, we’ve been grappling with how to best deploy our skills in service of the…