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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…

Tuberculosis (TB), a bacterial disease mainly affecting the lungs, is one of the leading infectious causes of mortality worldwide. To prevent TB from spreading within the body, which causes life-threatening complications, timely and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-30 Chandra Suda

We present a deep learning based automatic cough classifier which can discriminate tuberculosis (TB) coughs from COVID-19 coughs and healthy coughs. Both TB and COVID-19 are respiratory diseases, contagious, have cough as a predominant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Madhurananda Pahar , Marisa Klopper , Byron Reeve , Rob Warren , Grant Theron , Andreas Diacon , 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

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis and primarily affects the lungs, as well as other body parts. TB is spread through the air when an infected person coughs, sneezes, or talks.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-04 George P. Kafentzis , Stephane Tetsing , Joe Brew , Lola Jover , Mindaugas Galvosas , Carlos Chaccour , Peter M. Small

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

Large-scale tuberculosis (TB) screening is limited by the high cost and operational complexity of traditional diagnostics, creating a need for artificial-intelligence solutions. We propose DeepGB-TB, a non-invasive system that instantly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zhixiang Lu , Yulong Li , Feilong Tang , Zhengyong Jiang , Chong Li , Mian Zhou , Tenglong Li , Jionglong Su

Emerging wireless technologies, such as 5G and beyond, are bringing new use cases to the forefront, one of the most prominent being machine learning empowered health care. One of the notable modern medical concerns that impose an immense…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-01 Charles Bales , Muhammad Nabeel , Charles N. John , Usama Masood , Haneya N. Qureshi , Hasan Farooq , Iryna Posokhova , Ali Imran

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…

We present an automatic non-invasive way of detecting cough events based on both accelerometer and audio signals. The acceleration signals are captured by a smartphone firmly attached to the patient's bed, using its integrated…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Madhurananda Pahar , Igor Miranda , Andreas Diacon , Thomas Niesler

Cough is a protective reflex conveying information on the state of the respiratory system. Cough assessment has been limited so far to subjective measurement tools or uncomfortable (i.e., non-wearable) cough monitors. This limits the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-04 Jesús Monge-Alvarez , Carlos Hoyos-Barceló , Luis M. San-José-Revuelta , Pablo Casaseca-de-la-Higuera

In this work, we explore recurrent neural network architectures for tuberculosis (TB) cough classification. In contrast to previous unsuccessful attempts to implement deep architectures in this domain, we show that a basic bidirectional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-05 Geoffrey Frost , Grant Theron , Thomas Niesler

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…

We have performed cough detection based on measurements from an accelerometer attached to the patient's bed. This form of monitoring is less intrusive than body-attached accelerometer sensors, and sidesteps privacy concerns encountered when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Madhurananda Pahar , Igor Miranda , Andreas Diacon , Thomas Niesler

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb.) that produces pulmonary damage due to its airborne nature. This fact facilitates the disease fast-spreading, which, according to the World Health…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-01 Pedro M. Gordaliza

In this paper, a methodology for the automated detection and classification of Tuberculosis(TB) is presented. Tuberculosis is a disease caused by mycobacterium which spreads through the air and attacks low immune bodies easily. Our…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-08-05 Asha. T , S. Natarajan , K. N. B. Murthy

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

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

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

Tuberculosis (TB) is a top-10 cause of death worldwide. Though the WHO recommends chest radiographs (CXRs) for TB screening, the limited availability of CXR interpretation is a barrier. We trained a deep learning system (DLS) to detect…

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