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Since early in the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, there has been interest in using artificial intelligence methods to predict COVID-19 infection status based on vocal audio signals, for example cough recordings. However,…

Testing capacity for COVID-19 remains a challenge globally due to the lack of adequate supplies, trained personnel, and sample-processing equipment. These problems are even more acute in rural and underdeveloped regions. We demonstrate that…

In this paper, we present a system that employs a wearable acoustic sensor and a deep convolutional neural network for detecting coughs. We evaluate the performance of our system on 14 healthy volunteers and compare it to that of other…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-09-09 Justice Amoh , Kofi Odame

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in more than 125 million infections and more than 2.7 million casualties. In this paper, we attempt to classify covid vs non-covid cough sounds using signal processing and deep learning methods. Air…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-16 Vishwanath Pratap Singh , Shashi Kumar , Ravi Shekhar Jha , Abhishek Pandey

This paper presents a robust deep learning framework developed to detect respiratory diseases from recordings of respiratory sounds. The complete detection process firstly involves front end feature extraction where recordings are…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Lam Pham , Ian McLoughlin , Huy Phan , Minh Tran , Truc Nguyen , Ramaswamy Palaniappan

Automatically classifying cough sounds is one of the most critical tasks for the diagnosis and treatment of respiratory diseases. However, collecting a huge amount of labeled cough dataset is challenging mainly due to high laborious…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Ngan Dao Hoang , Dat Tran-Anh , Manh Luong , Cong Tran , Cuong Pham

The global spread of COVID-19 had severe consequences for public health and the world economy. The quick onset of the pandemic highlighted the potential benefits of cheap and deployable pre-screening methods to monitor the prevalence of the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Andrej Jovanović , Mario Mihaly , Lennon Donaldson

Fast and affordable solutions for COVID-19 testing are necessary to contain the spread of the global pandemic and help relieve the burden on medical facilities. Currently, limited testing locations and expensive equipment pose difficulties…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Ahmed Fakhry , Xinyi Jiang , Jaclyn Xiao , Gunvant Chaudhari , Asriel Han , Amil Khanzada

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

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

Lately, there has been a global effort by multiple research groups to detect COVID-19 from voice. Different researchers use different kinds of information from the voice signal to achieve this. Various types of phonated sounds and the sound…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Ankit Shah , Hira Dhamyal , Yang Gao , Daniel Arancibia , Mario Arancibia , Bhiksha Raj , Rita Singh

We report on cross-running the recent COVID-19 Identification ResNet (CIdeR) on the two Interspeech 2021 COVID-19 diagnosis from cough and speech audio challenges: ComParE and DiCOVA. CIdeR is an end-to-end deep learning neural network…

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…

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…

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

The technology development for point-of-care tests (POCTs) targeting respiratory diseases has witnessed a growing demand in the recent past. Investigating the presence of acoustic biomarkers in modalities such as cough, breathing and speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-22 Neeraj Kumar Sharma , Ananya Muguli , Prashant Krishnan , Rohit Kumar , Srikanth Raj Chetupalli , Sriram Ganapathy

The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most challenging healthcare crises during the 21st century. As the virus continues to spread on a global scale, the majority of efforts have been on the development of vaccines and the mass immunization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Meysam Effati , Yu-Chen Sun , Hani E. Naguib , Goldie Nejat

Cough is one of the most common symptoms in all respiratory diseases. In cases like Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Asthma, acute and chronic Bronchitis and the recent pandemic Covid-19, the early identification of cough is important…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Vinay Kulkarni , Radhakrishnan Vadakkethil

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

Monitoring of prevalent airborne diseases such as COVID-19 characteristically involves respiratory assessments. While auscultation is a mainstream method for preliminary screening of disease symptoms, its utility is hampered by the need for…