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Cough acoustics contain multitudes of vital information about pathomorphological alterations in the respiratory system. Reliable and accurate detection of cough events by investigating the underlying cough latent features and disease…

We seek to evaluate the detection performance of a rapid primary screening tool of Covid-19 solely based on the cough sound from 8,380 clinically validated samples with laboratory molecular-test (2,339 Covid-19 positives and 6,041 Covid-19…

We present a new machine learning based bed-occupancy detection system that uses the accelerometer signal captured by a bed-attached consumer smartphone. Automatic bed-occupancy detection is necessary for automatic long-term cough…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Madhurananda Pahar , Igor Miranda , Andreas Diacon , Thomas Niesler

Research on diagnosing diseases based on voice signals currently are rapidly increasing, including cough-related diseases. When training the cough sound signals into deep learning models, it is necessary to have a standard input by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-13 Bagus Tris Atmaja , Zanjabila , Suyanto , Akira Sasou

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems can detect disease-related acoustic patterns in cough sounds, offering a scalable and cost-effective approach to tuberculosis (TB) screening in high-burden, resource-limited settings. Previous studies…

Coughing is a typical symptom of COVID-19. To detect and localize coughing sounds remotely, a convolutional neural network (CNN) based deep learning model was developed in this work and integrated with a sound camera for the visualization…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-16 Gyeong-Tae Lee , Hyeonuk Nam , Seong-Hu Kim , Sang-Min Choi , Youngkey Kim , Yong-Hwa Park

Cough is a major symptom of respiratory-related diseases. There exists a tremendous amount of work in detecting coughs from audio but there has been no effort to identify coughs from solely inertial measurement unit (IMU). Coughing causes…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Shibo Zhang , Ebrahim Nemati , Tousif Ahmed , Md Mahbubur Rahman , Jilong Kuang , Alex Gao

The automatic identification of cough segments in audio through the determination of start and end points is pivotal to building scalable screening tools in health technologies for pulmonary related diseases. We propose the application of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-13 Joshua Jansen van Vüren , Devendra Singh Parihar , Daphne Naidoo , Kimsey Zajac , Willy Ssengooba , Grant Theron , Thomas Niesler

Cough sounds act as an important indicator of an individual's physical health, often used by medical professionals in diagnosing a patient's ailments. In recent years progress has been made in the area of automatically detecting cough…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-28 Paul Leamy , Ted Burke , Damon Berry , David Dorran

In this study, a machine learning model was developed for automatically detecting respiratory system sounds such as sneezing and coughing in disease diagnosis. The automatic model and approach development of breath sounds, which carry…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Negin Melek

Chest X-ray is a commonly used tool during triage, diagnosis and management of respiratory diseases. In resource-constricted settings, optimizing this resource can lead to valuable cost savings for the health care system and the patients as…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Alexander Philip , Sanya Chawla , Lola Jover , George P. Kafentzis , Joe Brew , Vishakh Saraf , Shibu Vijayan , Peter Small , Carlos Chaccour

Respiratory diseases remain major global health challenges, and traditional auscultation is often limited by subjectivity, environmental noise, and inter-clinician variability. This study presents an explainable multimodal deep learning…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-02 S M Asiful Islam Saky , Md Rashidul Islam , Md Saiful Arefin , Shahaba Alam

Intelligent systems are transforming the world, as well as our healthcare system. We propose a deep learning-based cough sound classification model that can distinguish between children with healthy versus pathological coughs such as…

Recent advancements in deep learning techniques have sparked performance boosts in various real-world applications including disease diagnosis based on multi-modal medical data. Cough sound data-based respiratory disease (e.g., COVID-19 and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Qian Wang , Zhaoyang Bu , Jiaxuan Mao , Wenyu Zhu , Jingya Zhao , Wei Du , Guochao Shi , Min Zhou , Si Chen , Jieming Qu

Millions of people have died worldwide from COVID-19. In addition to its high death toll, COVID-19 has led to unbearable suffering for individuals and a huge global burden to the healthcare sector. Therefore, researchers have been trying to…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Sudip Vhaduri , Seungyeon Paik , Jessica E Huber

Breath with nose sound features has been shown as a potential biometric in personal identification and verification. In this paper, we show that information that comes from other modalities captured by motion sensors on the chest in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Manh-Ha Bui , Viet-Anh Tran , Cuong Pham

We present an experimental investigation into the effectiveness of transfer learning and bottleneck feature extraction in detecting COVID-19 from audio recordings of cough, breath and speech. This type of screening is non-contact, does not…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Madhurananda Pahar , Marisa Klopper , Robin Warren , Thomas Niesler

We present a machine learning based COVID-19 cough classifier which can discriminate COVID-19 positive coughs from both COVID-19 negative and healthy coughs recorded on a smartphone. This type of screening is non-contact, easy to apply, and…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Madhurananda Pahar , Marisa Klopper , Robin Warren , Thomas Niesler

In this paper, we propose a standardized framework for automatic tuberculosis (TB) detection from cough audio and routinely collected clinical data using machine learning. While TB screening from audio has attracted growing interest,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-16 George P. Kafentzis , Efstratios Selisios

Pharyngeal health plays a vital role in essential human functions such as breathing, swallowing, and vocalization. Early detection of swallowing abnormalities, also known as dysphagia, is crucial for timely intervention. However, current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Jade Chng , Rong Xing , Yunfei Luo , Kristen Linnemeyer-Risser , Tauhidur Rahman , Andrew Yousef , Philip A Weissbrod