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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

Auscultation is a key method for early diagnosis of respiratory and pulmonary diseases, relying on skilled healthcare professionals. However, the process is often subjective, with variability between experts. As a result, numerous deep…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Yun Chu , Qiuhao Wang , Enze Zhou , Qian Liu , Gang Zheng

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

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

Audio classification using breath and cough samples has recently emerged as a low-cost, non-invasive, and accessible COVID-19 screening method. However, a comprehensive survey shows that no application has been approved for official use at…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Julia A. Meister , Khuong An Nguyen , Zhiyuan Luo

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 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…

The gold standard to assess respiration during sleep is polysomnography; a technique that is burdensome, expensive (both in analysis time and measurement costs), and difficult to repeat. Automation of respiratory analysis can improve test…

Smartphones and wearable devices, along with Artificial Intelligence, can represent a game-changer in the pandemic control, by implementing low-cost and pervasive solutions to recognize the development of new diseases at their early stages…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Mattia Giovanni Campana , Andrea Rovati , Franca Delmastro , Elena Pagani

In this study, we proposed a machine learning-based system to distinguish patients with COVID-19 from non-COVID-19 patients by analyzing only a single cough sound. Two different data sets were used, one accessible for the public and the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Masoud Maleki

Asthma is a chronic respiratory condition that affects millions of people worldwide. While this condition can be managed by administering controller medications through handheld inhalers, clinical studies have shown low adherence to the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-16 Davoud Shariat Panah , Alessandro N Franciosi , Cormac McCarthy , Andrew Hines

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

Respiratory auscultation is crucial for early detection of pediatric pneumonia, a condition that can quickly worsen without timely intervention. In areas with limited physician access, effective auscultation is challenging. We present a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Seung Gyu Jeong , Sung Woo Nam , Seong Kwan Jung , Seong-Eun Kim

Respiratory auscultation can help healthcare professionals detect abnormal respiratory conditions if adventitious lung sounds are heard. The state-of-the-art artificial intelligence technologies based on deep learning show great potential…

This paper presents a deep learning framework for detecting COVID-19 positive subjects from their cough sounds. In particular, the proposed approach comprises two main steps. In the first step, we generate a feature representing the cough…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Truong Hoang , Lam Pham , Dat Ngo , Hoang D. Nguyen

Listening to lung sounds through auscultation is vital in examining the respiratory system for abnormalities. Automated analysis of lung auscultation sounds can be beneficial to the health systems in low-resource settings where there is a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-10 Samiul Based Shuvo , Shams Nafisa Ali , Soham Irtiza Swapnil , Taufiq Hasan , Mohammed Imamul Hassan Bhuiyan

Clinical characterization and interpretation of respiratory sound symptoms have remained a challenge due to the similarities in the audio properties that manifest during auscultation in medical diagnosis. The misinterpretation and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-18 Chinazunwa Uwaoma , Gunjan Mansingh

Objective: Exploit accelerometry data for an automatic, reliable, and prompt detection of spontaneous circulation during cardiac arrest, as this is both vital for patient survival and practically challenging. Methods: We developed a machine…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-13 Wolfgang J. Kern , Simon Orlob , Andreas Bohn , Wolfgang Toller , Jan Wnent , Jan-Thorsten Gräsner , Martin Holler

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

This paper presents an inception-based deep neural network for detecting lung diseases using respiratory sound input. Recordings of respiratory sound collected from patients are firstly transformed into spectrograms where both spectral and…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Lam Pham , Huy Phan , Ross King , Alfred Mertins , Ian McLoughlin