{"id":31343,"date":"2022-08-31T09:55:20","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T14:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/?p=31343"},"modified":"2025-10-20T11:15:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T17:15:00","slug":"investigadores-de-la-universidad-de-florida-desarrollaran-un-modelo-de-ia-para-predecir-nuevas-variantes-de-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/big-data\/investigadores-de-la-universidad-de-florida-desarrollaran-un-modelo-de-ia-para-predecir-nuevas-variantes-de-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Florida researchers will develop an AI model to predict new coronavirus variants"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Researchers from the University of Florida (UF Health) College of Medicine and College of Public Health will develop an algorithm based on machine learning to identify new variants of COVID-19.<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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UF Health received a $3.7 million research grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) model capable of predicting new waves of coronavirus from the identification of new variants in a timely manner.<\/p>

Financial support will be led by Dr. Marco Salemi and Dr. Mattia Prosperi of UF Health. Salemi explained that the coronavirus is a moving target and that "we have always been one step behind." However, he added that it is common that when the epidemic seems to be under control another more virulent variant arises, however, he mentioned that this does not mean that the disease is more serious, only more transmissible.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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The project led by these two researchers aims to use AI and machine learning to model an algorithm capable of detecting new coronavirus variants that are of concern to public health. "AI can help us detect these genetic abnormalities faster before they threaten public health," said Simone Marini, assistant professor of epidemiology at UF, who will participate in the project as supervisor of algorithm development.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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But AI can help us detect these genetic abnormalities faster before they threaten public health,\u201d explained Simone Marini, assistant professor of epidemiology at UF, who will participate in the project as supervisor of algorithm development. That is, they will look for characteristics that make a new variant a public health problem.<\/p>

Salemi mentioned that, in the event of finding a new variant, thanks to the algorithm, it would be possible to know immediately if it could be contagious and generate a new wave of infections. "We would finally have a head start on the virus and be able to take preventive measures quickly," he explained.<\/p>

The AI will be trained to detect variants that affect human health, as well as other variants that are not a threat since they exist due to evolutionary processes that occurred naturally.<\/p>

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UF HEALTH<\/strong><\/p>

https:\/\/ufhealth.org\/news\/2022\/uf-researchers-use-ai-predict-new-coronavirus-variants<\/a><\/p>

HEALTH IT ANALYTICS<\/strong><\/p>

https:\/\/healthitanalytics.com\/news\/florida-researchers-to-use-ai-to-track-coronavirus-variants<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Investigadores del Colegio de Medicina y el Colegio de Salud P\u00fablica de la Universidad de Florida (UF Health), desarrollar\u00e1n un algoritmo basado en aprendizaje autom\u00e1tico para identificar nuevas variantes de COVID-19. UF Health, recibi\u00f3 una subvenci\u00f3n de investigaci\u00f3n de 3.7 millones de d\u00f3lares por parte de los Institutos Nacionales de Salud (NIH), para el desarrollo de un modelo de Inteligencia Artificial (IA), capaz de predecir las nuevas oleadas de coronavirus a partir de la identificaci\u00f3n de nuevas variantes de manera oportuna. El apoyo financiero ser\u00e1 dirigido por el Dr. Marco Salemi y el Dr. Mattia Prosperi de UF Health. Salemi explic\u00f3 que el coronavirus es un objetivo m\u00f3vil y que “siempre hemos estado un paso atr\u00e1s\u201d. Sin embargo, agreg\u00f3 que es com\u00fan que cuando la epidemia parece estar bajo control surge otra variante m\u00e1s virulenta, no obstante, mencion\u00f3 que esto no significa que la enfermedad sea m\u00e1s grave, solo m\u00e1s transmisible. El proyecto dirigido por estos dos investigadores, tiene como objetivo utilizar IA y aprendizaje autom\u00e1tico para modelar un algoritmo capaz de detectar nuevas variantes de coronavirus que sean de cuidado para la salud p\u00fablica.  \u201cLa IA puede ayudarnos a detectar estas anomal\u00edas gen\u00e9ticas m\u00e1s r\u00e1pido antes de que amenacen la salud p\u00fablica\u201d, explic\u00f3 Simone Marini, profesor asistente de epidemiolog\u00eda en la UF, quien participar\u00e1 en el proyecto como supervisor del desarrollo del algoritmo. Pero la IA puede ayudarnos a detectar estas anomal\u00edas gen\u00e9ticas m\u00e1s r\u00e1pido antes de que amenacen la salud p\u00fablica\u201d, explic\u00f3 Simone Marini, profesor asistente de epidemiolog\u00eda en la UF, quien participar\u00e1 en el proyecto como supervisor del desarrollo del algoritmo. Es decir, buscar\u00e1n caracter\u00edsticas que hacen de una variante nueva, un problema de salud p\u00fablica. Salemi mencion\u00f3 que, en caso de encontrar una nueva variante, gracias al algoritmo se podr\u00eda saber de inmediato si esta puede ser contagiosa y generar una nueva ola de contagios. \u201cFinalmente tendr\u00edamos una ventaja sobre el virus y podr\u00edamos tomar medidas de prevenci\u00f3n r\u00e1pidamente\u201d, explic\u00f3. La IA ser\u00e1 entrenada para detectar variantes que afecten la salud humana, as\u00ed como otras variantes que no son una amenaza ya que existen debido a procesos evolutivos que se dieron naturalmente. De esta forma se podr\u00e1n comprobar hip\u00f3tesis relacionadas con el COVID de larga duraci\u00f3n, la relaci\u00f3n del VIH con la variante delta u \u00f3micron, entre otras. BIBLIOGRAF\u00cdA UF HEALTH https:\/\/ufhealth.org\/news\/2022\/uf-researchers-use-ai-predict-new-coronavirus-variants HEALTH IT ANALYTICS https:\/\/healthitanalytics.com\/news\/florida-researchers-to-use-ai-to-track-coronavirus-variants<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,160],"tags":[145],"class_list":["post-31343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-data","category-noticias","tag-noticias"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}