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In this study, a machine learning model was developed for automatically detecting respiratory system sounds such as sneezing and coughing in disease diagnosis. The automatic model and approach development of breath sounds, which carry…

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We present a new machine learning based bed-occupancy detection system that uses the accelerometer signal captured by a bed-attached consumer smartphone. Automatic bed-occupancy detection is necessary for automatic long-term cough…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Madhurananda Pahar , Igor Miranda , Andreas Diacon , Thomas Niesler

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

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

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

A wide range of respiratory diseases, such as cold and flu, asthma, and COVID-19, affect people's daily lives worldwide. In medical practice, respiratory sounds are widely used in medical services to diagnose various respiratory illnesses…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Asmaa Shati , Ghulam Mubashar Hassan , Amitava Datta

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

Millions of people have died worldwide from COVID-19. In addition to its high death toll, COVID-19 has led to unbearable suffering for individuals and a huge global burden to the healthcare sector. Therefore, researchers have been trying to…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Sudip Vhaduri , Seungyeon Paik , Jessica E Huber

Respiratory symptoms can be a caused by different underlying conditions, and are often caused by viral infections, such as Influenza-like illnesses or other emerging viruses like the Coronavirus. These respiratory viruses, often, have…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-02 Abdelkader Nasreddine Belkacem , Sofia Ouhbi , Abderrahmane Lakas , Elhadj Benkhelifa , Chao Chen

The epidemic disease, called the new coronavirus (COVID19), firstly occurred in Wuhan, China in December 2019. COVID19 was announced as an epidemic by World Health Organization soon after. Some of the symptoms of this disease are fever,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Yunus Emre Erdoğan , Ali Narin

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 paper investigates the effectiveness of few-shot learning for respiratory sound classification, focusing on coughbased detection of COVID-19, Flu, and healthy conditions. We leverage Prototypical Networks with spectrogram…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Yoga Disha Sendhil Kumar , Manas V Shetty , Sudip Vhaduri

Respiratory diseases remain major global health challenges, and traditional auscultation is often limited by subjectivity, environmental noise, and inter-clinician variability. This study presents an explainable multimodal deep learning…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-02 S M Asiful Islam Saky , Md Rashidul Islam , Md Saiful Arefin , Shahaba Alam

Physicians routinely assess respiratory sounds during the diagnostic process, providing insight into the condition of a patient's airways. In recent years, AI-based diagnostic systems operating on respiratory sounds, have demonstrated…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Justin Luong , Hao Xue , Flora D. Salim

Background: The inability to test at scale has become humanity's Achille's heel in the ongoing war against the COVID-19 pandemic. A scalable screening tool would be a game changer. Building on the prior work on cough-based diagnosis of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-29 Ali Imran , Iryna Posokhova , Haneya N. Qureshi , Usama Masood , Muhammad Sajid Riaz , Kamran Ali , Charles N. John , MD Iftikhar Hussain , Muhammad Nabeel

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

Rapid and affordable methods of testing for COVID-19 infections are essential to reduce infection rates and prevent medical facilities from becoming overwhelmed. Current approaches of detecting COVID-19 require in-person testing with…

In this paper, an algorithm designed to detect characteristic cough events in audio recordings is presented, significantly reducing the time required for manual counting. Using time-frequency representations and independent subspace…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-15 Paul Leamy , Ted Burke , Dan Barry , David Dorran

We consider a centralized detection problem where sensors experience noisy measurements and intermittent connectivity to a centralized fusion center. The sensors collaborate locally within predefined sensor clusters and fuse their noisy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-23 Michal Yemini , Stephanie Gil , Andrea J. Goldsmith

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