Scientists and engineers worldwide are battling the COVID-19 pandemic. Here are some examples of their work, including epidemiological analysis, diagnostics, and ventilator models.
Fast detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA via the integration of plasmonic thermocycling and fluorescence detection in a portable device
Jiyong Cheong et al, Nature Biomedical Engineering, December 3 2020
paper
Example of Steady-State Electric-Current Modeling of a Complicated Cellular Topology with Boundary Element Fast Multipole Method
Vishwanath Iyer et al, Brain and Body Modeling, August 6 2020
paper
Management strategies in a SEIR-type model of COVID 19 community spread
Anca Rǎdulescu et al, Nature: Scientific Reports, December 4 2020
paper
How long should the COVID-19 lockdown continue?
Jonathan Caulkins et al, PLOS ONE, December 2 2020
paper
Effects of Covid-19 on Crude Oil Price and Future Forecast Using a Model Application and Machine Learning
Azubuike H Amadi et al, European Journal of Engineering Research and Science (EJERS), December 2020
paper
Face masks considerably reduce COVID-19 cases in Germany
Timo Mitze et al, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, December 3 2020
paper
In-host Mathematical Modelling of COVID-19 in Humans
Esteban A. Hernandez-Vargas and Jorge X. Velasco-Hernandez, Annual Reviews in Control, September 30 2020
paper
Immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 in three children of parents with symptomatic COVID-19
Shidan Tosif et al, Nature Communications, November 11 2020
paper
Testing sewage to home in on Covid-19
Scott Murray, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, October 28, 2020
article, paper with MATLAB code
Brain volumetric changes in the general population following the COVID-19 outbreak and lockdown
Tom Salomon et al, bioRxiv, September 12 2020
paper preprint
A network model of Italy shows that intermittent regional strategies can alleviate the COVID-19 epidemic
Fabio Della Rossa et al, Nature Communications, October 9 2020
paper
The geography of COVID-19 spread in Italy and implications for the relaxation of confinement measures
Enrico Bertuzzo et al, Nature, August 26 2020
paper
Cerebral Micro-Structural Changes in COVID-19 Patients – An MRI-based 3-month Follow-up Study
Yiping Lu et al, The Lancet, August 3 2020
paper
COVID-19 Spread Predictor
Ahmed Abel-Gawad, MATLAB File Exchange, July 18th
MATLAB code
How to determine when COVID-19 pool testing will be most effective
Behind the Headlines, mathworks.com, August 6 2020
blog post
Mathematical analysis on the dynamics of COVID-19 in India using SIR Epidemic Model
Zargar and Khanday, Mapana Journal of Sciences, August 6 2020
paper
COVID-19 SimBiology SEIR Model Examples
Fulden Buyukozturk, MATLAB File Exchange, May 29 2020
The interplay of movement and spatiotemporal variation in transmission degrades pandemic control
Nicholas Kortessis et al, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, October 5 2020
paper
A fractional order approach to modeling and simulations of the novel COVID-19
Isaac Owusu-Mensah et al, Adv Differ Equ, December 3 2020
paper
The math behind epidemics
Alison Hill, Physics Today, November 1 2020
paper, MATLAB code
A deep transfer learning model with classical data augmentation and CGAN to detect COVID-19 from chest CT radiography digital images
Mohamed Loey et al, Special Issue: Bio-Inspired Computing for Deep Learning Applications, October 26 2020
paper
Modeling lung perfusion abnormalities to explain early COVID-19 hypoxemia
Jacob Herrmann et al, Nature Communications, September 28 2020
paper
Variation of quantified infection rates of mixed samples to enhance rapid testing during an epidemic
Usama Kadri, Health Systems, September 13 2020
paper
Value of PET/CT and MATLAB in Detection of COVID-19 in an Oncology Patient - Case Report
Michael Masoomi et al, American Journal of Internal Medicine, August 25 2020
paper
Development of the Intelligent Pneumatic Sewing Platform for Mask Production
Hao-Ting Lin, IEEExplore, July 28 2020
paper
The average age of a new COVID test (whose results were returned within the last 14 days) is 2.4 days (8/6/20)
u/Johnsmith226, reddit.com, August 2020
social post
The COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa: Predictions using the SIR Model
Musalula Sinkala, medRxiv, June 1 2020
paper preprint and MATLAB code
Animation of COVID-19 Weekly Cases in England
Duncan Barclay, MATLAB File Exchange, July 2020
MATLAB code
Avoiding COVID-19: Aerosol Guidelines
Matthew Evans, medRxiv, June 5 2020
paper preprint
Multiscale 3-dimensional pathology findings of COVID-19 diseased lung using high-resolution cleared tissue microscopy
Guang Li et al, bioRxiv, April 20, 2020
paper preprint
Second Version of a COVID-19 Simulator
Cleve Moler, Cleve's Corner, March 29, 2020
blog post and MATLAB code and app
Modeling Growth, Containment and Decay of the COVID-19 Epidemic in Italy
Francesco Capuano, Frontiers in Physics, November 30 2020
paper
Patient Flow Dynamics in Hospital Systems During Times of COVID-19: Cox Proportional Hazard Regression Analysis
Sudhir Bhandari et al, Frontiers in Public Health, December 8 2020
paper
Design of 3D-printable nasopharyngeal swabs in Matlab for COVID-19 testing
Yilun Sun et al, Transactions on Additive Manufacturing Meets Medicine, September 9 2020
paper
A comprehensive study on classification of COVID-19 on computed tomography with pretrained convolutional neural networks
Tuan D. Pham, Nature Research, 2020
paper
Association of Red Blood Cell Distribution Width With Mortality Risk in Hospitalized Adults With SARS-CoV-2 Infection
Brody H. Foy et al, Critical Care Medicine, September 23 2020
paper
The effectiveness of social bubbles as part of a Covid-19 lockdown exit strategy, a modelling study
Trystan Leng et al, Wellcome Open Research, September 10 2020
pre-review paper
Automated subject-specific mask design and tissue loading evaluation framework using GIBBON
Kevin Moerman, Twitter, April 2020
post and MATLAB code
Classification of Covid-19 Coronavirus, Pneumonia and Healthy Lungs in CT Scans Using Q-Deformed Entropy and Deep Learning Features
Ali Hasan et al, Entropy, April 2020
paper
A quantitative and qualitative analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic model
Sarbaz Khoshnaw et al, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, September 2020
paper
First-wave COVID-19 transmissability and severity in China outside Hubei after control measures, and second-wave scenario planning: a modelling impact assessment
Kathy Leung et al, The Lancet, April 8, 2020
paper
A COVID-19 Epidemiological Model for Community and Policy Maker Use
Alex De Visscher, Concordia University, arXiv, March 19, 2020
paper preprint with model code
Influence of wind and relative humidity on the social distancing effectiveness to prevent COVID-19 airborne transmission: A numerical study
Yu Feng et al, Journal of Aerosol Science, September 2020
paper
A review of open source ventilators for COVID-19 and future pandemics
Joshua M. Pearce, F1000Research, March 30 2020
paper and MATLAB code for the OxyGEN project
La Inteligencia Artificial y el Machine Learning en los Respiradores Contra el Coronavirus [Spanish]
Ignacio Ozcariz, El Radar de la Georealidad, 6 April 2020
article
COVID-19 Emergency Ventilator
Imperial College London
design, JamVent evaluation of performance
A Simulated Single Ventilator / Dual Patient Ventilation Strategy for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome during COVID-19 pandemic
Jose A. Solis-Lemus et al, medRxiv, April 7, 2020
paper preprint
Modelling and Optimisation of Mechanical Ventilation for Critically Ill Patient
Anup Das, University of Exeter, 2012
Ph.D. thesis
Pressure - Volume Controlled Mechanical Ventilator: Modeling and Simulation
Fikret YALÇINKAY, 9th International Conference on Electrical and Electronics Engineering (ELECO), 2015
paper
The BathRC model: a method to estimate flow restrictor size for dual ventilation of dissimilar patients
Andrew Plummer et al, medRxiv, April 17 2020
paper preprint and GitHub repo
Ventilator Example with Closed-Loop Control on Low Cost Hardware
Steve Miller, GitHub, April 2020
GitHub repo with Simulink and Simscape models
Neonatal Ventilator Modeling using Simulink
Ravali K, GitHub, April 2020
GitHub repo with Simulink and Simscape models
Artificial Ventilation Simulator
Jakub R'afl, Czech Technical University in Prague, 2008
Masters thesis
A Novel Methodology for the Design of a Portable Ventilator
Subha Hency Jose P. et al, International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering (IJITEE), November 2019
paper
Medical Ventilator with Lung Model (Simscape Example)
Positive-pressure medical ventilator system that models the lung using Translational Mechanical Converter (MA), which converts moist air pressure into translational motion.
Simscape model
Modelling and Simulation of Pressure Controlled Mechanical Ventilation System
Noman Q. Al-Naggar, Journal of Biomedical Science and Engineering (JBiSE), 2015
paper
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