Ontology for Preliminary Detection of COVID-19

During the recent COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers are trying to manage this medical emergency at war footing. It is the need of the time to have a COVID-19 detection procedure that can be used to stothe kiosk-based operation is shownp the spread among the general people. This paper proposes an ontology-based technique to detect and preliminarily diagnose suspected COVID-19 patients without direct intervention of healthcare professionals. The proposed procedure works as a part of remote healthcare services and tries to respond timely to the situation. The ontology is used for handling general people, rather than patients, to detect COVID-19 primarily.