Virus Hunter 6 (VH6)
Benefits
This AI-assisted diagnostics platform provides rapid COVID-19 testing with results in under 30 minutes. It's highly specific (100%) and sensitive (98-100% depending on viral load) with a limit of detection of 1.4 copies of RNA per μL. The platform is portable, low-cost, and eliminates subjectivity in test interpretation through automated image acquisition and AI deep learning models. It includes a smartphone companion app for patient registration and secure data management.
Details
- Tool name
- Virus Hunter 6 (VH6)
- Organisation
- University of Surrey
- Status
- live
- AI method (as recorded)
- Machine Learning, Computer Vision, generativeAI
- AI method (normalised tags)
- Machine Learning Computer Vision generativeAI
- Usecase
- Health AI
- Origin
- hra.nhs.uk
- Owning team
- University of Surrey Research Team
- Date added
- Scrape date
- 24/04/2026
- Source note
- The research was approved by the East of England - Cambridge South Research Ethics Committee (REC reference: 20/EE/0125) with a favorable opinion. The study involved 752 NHS patient samples for development and validation. The diagnostic platform was approved for medical use in the UK under the UK Health Security Agency's CTDA Regulations 2022 with CE-IVD and MHRA registration. [Source]