
An artificial intelligence tool called KIDMATCH may be able to accurately distinguish between MIS-C, Kawasaki disease and other similar febrile diseases, according to data published in the Lancet Digital Health.
“For 40 years, the Kawasaki research community has tried to create a diagnostic test for [ Kawasaki disease (KD)] and failed,” Jane C. Burns, MD, a pediatrician at Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego, director of the Kawasaki Disease Research Center at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, and study co-author, said in a press release.
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