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Background. Infectious diseases, particularly COVID-19, continue to be a significant global health issue. Although many countries have reduced or stopped large-scale testing measures, the detection of such diseases remains a propriety.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Jiayuan She , Lin Shi , Peiqi Li , Ziling Dong , Renxing Li , Shengkai Li , Liping Gu , Zhao Tong , Zhuochang Yang , Yajie Ji , Liang Feng , Jiangang Chen

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is characterized by irregular electrical impulses originating in the atria, which can lead to severe complications and even death. Due to the intermittent nature of the AF, early and timely monitoring of AF is…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Xuanyu Liu , Haoxian Liu , Jiao Li , Zongqi Yang , Yi Huang , Jin Zhang

Recent years have seen the increasing need of location awareness by mobile applications. This paper presents a room-level indoor localization approach based on the measured room's echos in response to a two-millisecond single-tone inaudible…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Qun Song , Chaojie Gu , Rui Tan

Respiratory diseases remain a leading cause of mortality worldwide, highlighting the need for faster and more accurate diagnostic tools. This work presents a novel approach leveraging digital stethoscope technology for automatic respiratory…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Constantino Álvarez Casado , Manuel Lage Cañellas , Matteo Pedone , Xiaoting Wu , Le Nguyen , Miguel Bordallo López

The widespread use of earphones has enabled various sensing applications, including activity recognition, health monitoring, and context-aware computing. Among these, earphone-based user authentication has become a key technique by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Lei Wang , Jiangxuan Shen , Xi Zhang , Dalin Zhang , Jingyu Li , Haipeng Dai , Chenren Xu , Daqing Zhang , He Huang

Early identification of respiratory irregularities is critical for improving lung health and reducing global mortality rates. The analysis of respiratory sounds plays a significant role in characterizing the respiratory system's condition…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Loredana Daria Mang , Francisco David Gonzalez Martinez , Damian Martinez Munoz , Sebastian Garcia Galan , Raquel Cortina

Activity recognition computer vision algorithms can be used to detect the presence of autism-related behaviors, including what are termed "restricted and repetitive behaviors", or stimming, by diagnostic instruments. The limited data that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Peter Washington , Aaron Kline , Onur Cezmi Mutlu , Emilie Leblanc , Cathy Hou , Nate Stockham , Kelley Paskov , Brianna Chrisman , Dennis P. Wall

Respiratory sound analysis is a crucial tool for screening asthma and other pulmonary pathologies, yet traditional auscultation remains subjective and experience-dependent. Our prior research established a CNN baseline using DenseNet201,…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Theodore Aptekarev , Vladimir Sokolovsky , Gregory Furman

The alarmingly high mortality rate and increasing global prevalence of cardiovascular diseases signify the crucial need for early detection schemes. Phonocardiogram (PCG) signals have been historically applied in this domain owing to its…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-09 Samiul Based Shuvo , Shams Nafisa Ali , Soham Irtiza Swapnil , Mabrook S. Al-Rakhami , Abdu Gumaei

Air travel is one of the fastest growing modes of transportation, however, the effects of aircraft noise on populations surrounding airports is hindering its growth. In an effort to study and ultimately mitigate the impact that this noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Nicholas Heller , Derek Anderson , Matt Baker , Brad Juffer , Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos

Auscultation is a method for diagnosis of especially internal medicine diseases such as cardiac, pulmonary and cardio-pulmonary by listening the internal sounds from the body parts. It is the simplest and the most common physical…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Gokhan Altan , Yakup Kutlu , Yusuf Garbi , Adnan Ozhan Pekmezci , Serkan Nural

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is frequent and responsible for cardiovascular complications and excessive daytime sleepiness. It is underdiagnosed due to the difficulty to access the gold standard for diagnosis, polysomnography (PSG).…

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,…

Recent work has shown the potential of using audio data (eg, cough, breathing, and voice) in the screening for COVID-19. However, these approaches only focus on one-off detection and detect the infection given the current audio sample, but…

In this paper, we propose a real-time robot-based auxiliary system for risk evaluation of COVID-19 infection. It combines real-time speech recognition, temperature measurement, keyword detection, cough detection and other functions in order…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-19 Wenqi Wei , Jianzong Wang , Jiteng Ma , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

As respiratory illnesses become more common, it is crucial to quickly and accurately detect them to improve patient care. There is a need for improved diagnostic methods for immediate medical assessments for optimal patient outcomes. This…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-30 Paridhi Mundra , Manik Sharma , Yashwardhan Chaudhuri , Orchid Chetia Phukan , Arun Balaji Buduru

We present an IoT-based intelligent bed sensor system that collects and analyses respiration-associated signals for unobtrusive monitoring in the home, hospitals and care units. A contactless device is used, which contains four load sensors…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-26 Qingju Liu , Mark Kenny , Ramin Nilforooshan , Payam Barnaghi

The COVID-19 pandemic created a significant interest and demand for infection detection and monitoring solutions. In this paper we propose a machine learning method to quickly triage COVID-19 using recordings made on consumer devices. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-04 Alexander Ponomarchuk , Ilya Burenko , Elian Malkin , Ivan Nazarov , Vladimir Kokh , Manvel Avetisian , Leonid Zhukov

Cough audio signal classification has been successfully used to diagnose a variety of respiratory conditions, and there has been significant interest in leveraging Machine Learning (ML) to provide widespread COVID-19 screening. However,…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Lara Orlandic , Tomas Teijeiro , David Atienza

Voice-based interfaces rely on a wake-up word mechanism to initiate communication with devices. However, achieving a robust, energy-efficient, and fast detection remains a challenge. This paper addresses these real production needs by…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Fernando López , Jordi Luque , Carlos Segura , Pablo Gómez