A Symposium at UOB Presents Technology for Early Detection Of

A Symposium at UOB
Presents Technology for Early Detection Of “Covid-19”

Organized by CIC
and Supported By “Amazon”

8 July 2020

Under the sponsorship of the President of the University of
Bahrain (UOB), Dr. Riyad Yousif Hamzah and with the participation of professors
and specialists in the field of information technology, he Cloud Innovation
Center (CIC) of UOB organized a symposium entitled “Utilization of Technology
to Fight Covid-19”.

During which participants were introduced to a model based
on computed tomography scans for Covid-19 patients, which is a model provided
by the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver to the world on how to
use artificial intelligence to combat the Covid-19 pandemic, and that is
through an X-ray technology provided by the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud
Innovation Center that carry out tomography scans of the lungs of COVID-19
patients from several countries.

Also, this technique enables medical personnel to diagnose
infection with the Covid-19 virus before it spreads in the bodies of those
infected. This technology was provided by the Canadian University and is based
on understanding and identifying the virus and providing data on the size of
its spread inside the patient’s lung.

Participants in the Symposium included the head of the Media
Center at UOB, Dr. Mazen Ali, the head of the Digital Innovation Department at
the Amazon Center, Nidal Oday Al-Basha, and the expert in the field of
information technology at the AWS Center Bahrain Nicholas David, as well as the
following people from UBC: Senior Solutions Engineer Artur Rodrigues, Head of
Digital Innovation at the Amazon Innovation Cloud Center, Coral Kennet, and
Head of Amazon Cloud Innovation Center EMEA Jude Sheeran.

Sustainable Development Goals:

3 Good Health and Well-Being

4 Quality Education

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Key Words

Cloud Innovation Center at the University of Bahrain, Amazon
Cloud Innovation Center, Utilization of Technology to Fight the Pandemic,
computed tomography, understanding the virus