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Audio-based cough counting using independent subspace analysis

Audio and Speech Processing 2021-04-15 v1 Sound

Abstract

In this paper, an algorithm designed to detect characteristic cough events in audio recordings is presented, significantly reducing the time required for manual counting. Using time-frequency representations and independent subspace analysis (ISA), sound events that exhibit characteristics of coughs are automatically detected, producing a summary of the events detected. Using a dataset created from publicly available audio recordings, this algorithm has been tested on a variety of synthesized audio scenarios representative of those likely to be encountered by subjects undergoing an ambulatory cough recording, achieving a true positive rate of 76% with an average of 2.85 false positives per minute.

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@article{arxiv.2104.06798,
  title  = {Audio-based cough counting using independent subspace analysis},
  author = {Paul Leamy and Ted Burke and Dan Barry and David Dorran},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.06798},
  year   = {2021}
}
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