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Background: Infant cry acoustics provide a promising window into early neurodevelopment and may serve as scalable biomarkers for neurodevelopmental disorders. However, conventional microphone-based recordings are highly susceptible to…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Winko W. An , Saketh Sundar , Lisa Yankowitz , Daryush D. Mehta , Carol L. Wilkinson

Pulmonary diseases impact millions of lives globally and annually. The recent outbreak of the pandemic of the COVID-19, a novel pulmonary infection, has more than ever brought the attention of the research community to the machine-aided…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Morteza Hosseini , Haoran Ren , Hasib-Al Rashid , Arnab Neelim Mazumder , Bharat Prakash , Tinoosh Mohsenin

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

In this work, we propose a bi-directional long short-term memory (BiLSTM) network based COVID-19 detection method using breath/speech/cough signals. By using the acoustic signals to train the network, respectively, we can build individual…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-10 Xing-Yu Chen , Qiu-Shi Zhu , Jie Zhang , Li-Rong Dai

One of the fastest-growing domains in AI is healthcare. Given its importance, it has been the interest of many researchers to deploy ML models into the ever-demanding healthcare domain to aid doctors and increase accessibility. Delivering…

Over the years, activity sensing and recognition has been shown to play a key enabling role in a wide range of applications, from sustainability and human-computer interaction to health care. While many recognition tasks have traditionally…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Dawei Liang , Edison Thomaz

This paper presents and explores a robust deep learning framework for auscultation analysis. This aims to classify anomalies in respiratory cycles and detect disease, from respiratory sound recordings. The framework begins with front-end…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-04 Lam Pham , Huy Phan , Ramaswamy Palaniappan , Alfred Mertins , Ian McLoughlin

This paper proposes a novel framework for lung sound event detection, segmenting continuous lung sound recordings into discrete events and performing recognition on each event. Exploiting the lightweight nature of Temporal Convolution…

Artificial intelligence and deep learning are increasingly applied in the clinical domain, particularly for early and accurate disease detection using medical imaging and sound. Due to limited trained personnel, there is a growing demand…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Shahran Rahman Alve , Muhammad Zawad Mahmud , Samiha Islam , Mohammad Monirujjaman Khan

Auscultation plays a pivotal role in early respiratory and pulmonary disease diagnosis. Despite the emergence of deep learning-based methods for automatic respiratory sound classification post-Covid-19, limited datasets impede performance…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yun Chu , Qiuhao Wang , Enze Zhou , Ling Fu , Qian Liu , Gang Zheng

We applied deep learning to create an algorithm for breathing phase detection in lung sound recordings, and we compared the breathing phases detected by the algorithm and manually annotated by two experienced lung sound researchers. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Cristina Jácome , Johan Ravn , Einar Holsbø , Juan Carlos Aviles-Solis , Hasse Melbye , Lars Ailo Bongo

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is a leading cause of death worldwide. Rapid diagnosis and initiation of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is the cornerstone of therapy for victims of cardiac arrest. Yet a significant fraction of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Justin Chan , Thomas Rea , Shyamnath Gollakota , Jacob E. Sunshine

The current outbreak of a coronavirus, has quickly escalated to become a serious global problem that has now been declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by the World Health Organization. Infectious diseases know no…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Madhu R. Kamble , Jose Patino , Maria A. Zuluaga , Massimiliano Todisco

Health acoustic sounds such as coughs and breaths are known to contain useful health signals with significant potential for monitoring health and disease, yet are underexplored in the medical machine learning community. The existing deep…

The usage of smartphone-collected respiratory sound, trained with deep learning models, for detecting and classifying COVID-19 becomes popular recently. It removes the need for in-person testing procedures especially for rural regions where…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Hao Xue , Flora D. Salim

Several therapy routines require deep breathing exercises as a key component and patients undergoing such therapies must perform these exercises regularly. Assessing the outcome of a therapy and tailoring its course necessitates monitoring…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-20 Hassam Khan Wazir , Zaid Waghoo , Vikram Kapila

In this research, we present an innovative, parameter-efficient model that utilizes the attention U-Net architecture for the automatic detection and eradication of non-speech vocal sounds, specifically breath sounds, in vocal recordings.…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Nidula Elgiriyewithana , N. D. Kodikara

Lung auscultation is the most effective and indispensable method for diagnosing various respiratory disorders by using the sounds from the airways during inspirium and exhalation using a stethoscope. In this study, the statistical features…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Gökhan Altan , Yakup Kutlu , Adnan Özhan Pekmezci , Serkan Nural

Early detection of asthma in children is crucial to prevent long-term respiratory complications and reduce emergency interventions. This work presents an AI-powered diagnostic pipeline that leverages Googles Health Acoustic Representations…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Abul Ehtesham , Saket Kumar , Aditi Singh , Tala Talaei Khoei

Asthma is a common, usually long-term respiratory disease with negative impact on global society and economy. Treatment involves using medical devices (inhalers) that distribute medication to the airways and its efficiency depends on the…