The conversations roll on and on this episode of Technikari, we are joined by Wisdom James Murombo and Pardon Mukoyi the team behind the Chest X-Ray COVID-19 Diagnostic system we reported on in late 2020.
Pardon and Wisdom claimed second place at the ICAT Hackathon for their system and they are now working with the Ministry of Health to deploy it nationwide.
On this episode we talked about:
- The development of the system with Kaggle’s chest X-Ray datasets
- Challenges associated with deploying the system nationwide
- Investment and govt support
- Intergrating other forms of imagining (MRI and CT) as well as configuring the system to help with Cancer, TB and other diseases.
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If you are in the mood for something more downbeat and not related to our usual coverage. We have another podcast called Tisu Vanhu Vacho where the media team at Techzim talks about anything and everything. On the latest episode, we talked about the whether we prefer an office work environment or working from home.
This conversation started when Shamie (our Social Media Editor) found a report that said 40% of South Africans now prefer working from home. The proportion was pretty surprising judging by the limited transition and settling time the world’s workforce got to adapt to remote work.
