Leveraging Technology as a Response to the COVID Pandemic

Chapter 10 How COVID-19 Catalyzed Community-Driven AI in the Metaverse of Medical Data

Dexter Hadley, Cynthia Kyin, Rachna Sannegowda, Jennifer Nedimyer Horner, Elena Cyrus, and David Metcalf

DOI: 10.4324/b23264-10

Contents

• Background
• Metaverse of Medical Data
• Community-Driven AI
• CovidImaging.US Pilot Study
  • Introduction
  • Methods
  • Results
• Discussion
• Conclusion
• References

Background

By the time Facebook (FB) changed its name to Meta¹ earlier this year, an unprecedented virtualization of society had already taken place. COVID-19 forced communities to displace physical interactions with more digital ones to be able to navigate a new pandemic reality. The physical reality of going to work, school, or place of worship had become a shared virtual ...