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Failure to acknowledge 1 other open source lung scan based ConvNet that was published back on February 9, over a month before CovidNet #55

Open JordanMicahBennett opened 4 years ago

JordanMicahBennett commented 4 years ago

Just a heads up.

With reference to this line on main repository: "Motivated by this, a number of artificial intelligence (AI) systems based on deep learning have been proposed and results have been shown to be quite promising in terms of accuracy in detecting patients infected with COVID-19 using chest radiography images. However, to the best of the authors' knowledge, these developed AI systems have been closed source and unavailable to the research community for deeper understanding and extension, and unavailable for public access and use."

There has been another open source project since February 9, that pre-dated CovidNet by over a month:

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Emails were sent to one of the authors namely Alexander, but the main CovidNet github repository is yet to reflect/acknowledge the much earlier repository, which is easy and quickly doable. Why hasn't this been done?