Day: April 19, 2020

“For the moment, melon season is looking good,” says Med’Essor Manager

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As the Maltese season from Tunisia draws to an end, Med’Essor will soon start marketing its first Spanish melons. “We are at the heart of the Moroccan campaign and we are about to start with the Spanish origin. For the moment, everything is going well. The quality of the melons is good, prices are reasonable, volumes are satisfactory and there is no supply problem. This year again, we will continue with our Rouge Gorge brand. We hope that consumption will be good,” Mourad Ben Salem, manager of Med’Essor told Fresh…

Tunisian researchers use AI, X-rays to create online virus scan tool

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TUNISIAN engineers have created a web-based platform that scans lung X-rays and evaluates whether patients are likely to be suffering from the COVID-19. Teachers and students at the Tunisian engineering and technology institute INSAT have been developing the platform – COVID-19 Exam Ct/XR images by AI – since mid-March, with the support of German development agency GIZ, the Italian Society of Medical Radiology and US tech giant IBM. Thousands of X-rays of the lungs of both healthy people and COVID-19 patients have been fed into the platform, allowing artificial intelligence…