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Auscultation of respiratory sounds is the primary tool for screening and diagnosing lung diseases. Automated analysis, coupled with digital stethoscopes, can play a crucial role in enabling tele-screening of fatal lung diseases. Deep neural…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Siddhartha Gairola , Francis Tom , Nipun Kwatra , Mohit Jain

The development of a system for the automatic, objective and reliable detection of cough events is a need underlined by the medical literature for years. The benefit of such a tool is clear as it would allow the assessment of pathology…

Continuous cough monitors can greatly aid doctors in home monitoring and treatment of respiratory diseases. Although many algorithms have been proposed, they still face limitations in data privacy and short-term monitoring. Edge-AI offers a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Stefano Albini , Lara Orlandic , Jonathan Dan , Jérôme Thevenot , Tomas Teijeiro , Denisa Andreea Constantinescu , David Atienza

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 COVID-19 pandemic has affected the world unevenly; while industrial economies have been able to produce the tests necessary to track the spread of the virus and mostly avoided complete lockdowns, developing countries have faced issues…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Björn W. Schuller , Harry Coppock , Alexander Gaskell

With the periodic rise and fall of COVID-19 and countries being inflicted by its waves, an efficient, economic, and effortless diagnosis procedure for the virus has been the utmost need of the hour. COVID-19 positive individuals may even be…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Saranga Kingkor Mahanta , Darsh Kaushik , Shubham Jain , Hoang Van Truong , Koushik Guha

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

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

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…

The primary objective of this paper is to build classification models and strategies to identify breathing sound anomalies (wheeze, crackle) for automated diagnosis of respiratory and pulmonary diseases. In this work we propose a deep…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-20 Jyotibdha Acharya , Arindam Basu

In the framework of assessing the pathology severity in chronic cough diseases, medical literature underlines the lack of tools for allowing the automatic, objective and reliable detection of cough events. This paper describes a system…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-13 Thomas Drugman , Jerome Urbain , Nathalie Bauwens , Ricardo Chessini , Anne-Sophie Aubriot , Patrick Lebecque , Thierry Dutoit

Chronic cough disorders are widespread and challenging to assess because they rely on subjective patient questionnaires about cough frequency. Wearable devices running Machine Learning (ML) algorithms are promising for quantifying daily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Lara Orlandic , Jonathan Dan , Jerome Thevenot , Tomas Teijeiro , Alain Sauty , David Atienza

This paper addresses the issue of cough detection using only audio recordings, with the ultimate goal of quantifying and qualifying the degree of pathology for patients suffering from respiratory diseases, notably mucoviscidosis. A large…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Thomas Drugman , Jerome Urbain , Thierry Dutoit

In this paper, we propose a deep residual network-based method, namely the DiCOVA-Net, to identify COVID-19 infected patients based on the acoustic recording of their coughs. Since there are far more healthy people than infected patients,…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Jiangeng Chang , Shaoze Cui , Mengling Feng

Early detection of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is critical for improving patient outcomes, and novel approaches are needed to facilitate early diagnosis. In this study, we explore the use of automatic cough analysis as a…

Cough-based diagnosis for Respiratory Diseases (RDs) using Artificial Intelligence (AI) has attracted considerable attention, yet many existing studies overlook confounding variables in their predictive models. These variables can distort…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Tabish Saeed , Aneeqa Ijaz , Ismail Sadiq , Haneya N. Qureshi , Ali Rizwan , Ali Imran

This paper addresses issues on cough-based COVID-19 detection. We propose a cross-dataset transfer learning approach to improve the performance of COVID-19 detection by incorporating cough detection, cough segmentation, and data…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-13 Bagus Tris Atmaja , Zanjabila , Suyanto , Akira Sasou

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

The Covid-19 pandemic has been one of the most devastating events in recent history, claiming the lives of more than 5 million people worldwide. Even with the worldwide distribution of vaccines, there is an apparent need for affordable,…

This research presents a robust approach to classifying COVID-19 cough sounds using cutting-edge machine-learning techniques. Leveraging deep neural decision trees and deep neural decision forests, our methodology demonstrates consistent…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Rofiqul Islam , Nihad Karim Chowdhury , Muhammad Ashad Kabir