English
Related papers

Related papers: Exploring Longitudinal Cough, Breath, and Voice Da…

200 papers

We present an experimental investigation into the effectiveness of transfer learning and bottleneck feature extraction in detecting COVID-19 from audio recordings of cough, breath and speech. This type of screening is non-contact, does not…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Madhurananda Pahar , Marisa Klopper , Robin Warren , Thomas Niesler

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

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…

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

In the break of COVID-19 pandemic, mass testing has become essential to reduce the spread of the virus. Several recent studies suggest that a significant number of COVID-19 patients display no physical symptoms whatsoever. Therefore, it is…

The research direction of identifying acoustic bio-markers of respiratory diseases has received renewed interest following the onset of COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, we design an approach to COVID-19 diagnostic using crowd-sourced…

The development of fast and accurate screening tools, which could facilitate testing and prevent more costly clinical tests, is key to the current pandemic of COVID-19. In this context, some initial work shows promise in detecting…

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

OBJECTIVE: Our objective is to evaluate the possibility of using cough audio recordings (spontaneous or simulated) to detect sound patterns in people who are diagnosed with COVID-19. The research question that led our work was: what is the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-10 D. Trejo Pizzo , S. Esteban

The Second Diagnosis of COVID-19 using Acoustics (DiCOVA) Challenge aimed at accelerating the research in acoustics based detection of COVID-19, a topic at the intersection of acoustics, signal processing, machine learning, and healthcare.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-12 Neeraj Kumar Sharma , Srikanth Raj Chetupalli , Debarpan Bhattacharya , Debottam Dutta , Pravin Mote , Sriram Ganapathy

COVID-19 is a global health crisis that has been affecting many aspects of our daily lives throughout the past year. The symptomatology of COVID-19 is heterogeneous with a severity continuum. A considerable proportion of symptoms are…

We present a deep learning based automatic cough classifier which can discriminate tuberculosis (TB) coughs from COVID-19 coughs and healthy coughs. Both TB and COVID-19 are respiratory diseases, contagious, have cough as a predominant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Madhurananda Pahar , Marisa Klopper , Byron Reeve , Rob Warren , Grant Theron , Andreas Diacon , Thomas Niesler

Recently, sound-based COVID-19 detection studies have shown great promise to achieve scalable and prompt digital pre-screening. However, there are still two unsolved issues hindering the practice. First, collected datasets for model…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Tong Xia , Jing Han , Lorena Qendro , Ting Dang , Cecilia Mascolo

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

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,…

COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 has led to a treacherous and devastating catastrophe for humanity. At the time of writing, no specific antivirus drugs or vaccines are recommended to control infection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Ankit Pal , Malaikannan Sankarasubbu

This paper aims to automatically detect COVID-19 patients by analysing the acoustic information embedded in coughs. COVID-19 affects the respiratory system, and, consequently, respiratory-related signals have the potential to contain…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Adria Mallol-Ragolta , Helena Cuesta , Emilia Gómez , Björn W. Schuller

We present a machine learning based COVID-19 cough classifier which can discriminate COVID-19 positive coughs from both COVID-19 negative and healthy coughs recorded on a smartphone. This type of screening is non-contact, easy to apply, and…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Madhurananda Pahar , Marisa Klopper , Robin Warren , Thomas Niesler

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, 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