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Artificial intelligence (AI) systems can detect disease-related acoustic patterns in cough sounds, offering a scalable and cost-effective approach to tuberculosis (TB) screening in high-burden, resource-limited settings. Previous studies…

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

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

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis and primarily affects the lungs, as well as other body parts. TB is spread through the air when an infected person coughs, sneezes, or talks.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-04 George P. Kafentzis , Stephane Tetsing , Joe Brew , Lola Jover , Mindaugas Galvosas , Carlos Chaccour , Peter M. Small

Intelligent systems are transforming the world, as well as our healthcare system. We propose a deep learning-based cough sound classification model that can distinguish between children with healthy versus pathological coughs such as…

Objective: The automatic discrimination between the coughing sounds produced by patients with tuberculosis (TB) and those produced by patients with other lung ailments. Approach: We present experiments based on a dataset of 1358 forced…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Madhurananda Pahar , Marisa Klopper , Byron Reeve , Grant Theron , Rob Warren , Thomas Niesler

Tuberculosis (TB), a bacterial disease mainly affecting the lungs, is one of the leading infectious causes of mortality worldwide. To prevent TB from spreading within the body, which causes life-threatening complications, timely and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-30 Chandra Suda

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

Large-scale tuberculosis (TB) screening is limited by the high cost and operational complexity of traditional diagnostics, creating a need for artificial-intelligence solutions. We propose DeepGB-TB, a non-invasive system that instantly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zhixiang Lu , Yulong Li , Feilong Tang , Zhengyong Jiang , Chong Li , Mian Zhou , Tenglong Li , Jionglong Su

We have performed cough detection based on measurements from an accelerometer attached to the patient's bed. This form of monitoring is less intrusive than body-attached accelerometer sensors, and sidesteps privacy concerns encountered when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Madhurananda Pahar , Igor Miranda , Andreas Diacon , Thomas Niesler

Recent advancements in deep learning techniques have sparked performance boosts in various real-world applications including disease diagnosis based on multi-modal medical data. Cough sound data-based respiratory disease (e.g., COVID-19 and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Qian Wang , Zhaoyang Bu , Jiaxuan Mao , Wenyu Zhu , Jingya Zhao , Wei Du , Guochao Shi , Min Zhou , Si Chen , Jieming Qu

Respiratory diseases are among the most common causes of severe illness and death worldwide. Prevention and early diagnosis are essential to limit or even reverse the trend that characterizes the diffusion of such diseases. In this regard,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-15 Diego Perna , Andrea Tagarelli

Identifying epileptic seizures through analysis of the electroencephalography (EEG) signal becomes a standard method for the diagnosis of epilepsy. Manual seizure identification on EEG by trained neurologists is time-consuming,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-07 X. Yao , X. Li , Q. Ye , Y. Huang , Q. Cheng , G. -Q. Zhang

Coughing is a typical symptom of COVID-19. To detect and localize coughing sounds remotely, a convolutional neural network (CNN) based deep learning model was developed in this work and integrated with a sound camera for the visualization…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-16 Gyeong-Tae Lee , Hyeonuk Nam , Seong-Hu Kim , Sang-Min Choi , Youngkey Kim , Yong-Hwa Park

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

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 present work proposes a deep-learning-based approach for the classification of COVID-19 coughs from non-COVID-19 coughs and that can be used as a low-resource-based tool for early detection of the onset of such respiratory diseases. The…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-25 Annesya Banerjee , Achal Nilhani

Long short-term memory (LSTM) based acoustic modeling methods have recently been shown to give state-of-the-art performance on some speech recognition tasks. To achieve a further performance improvement, in this research, deep extensions on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-05-12 Xiangang Li , Xihong Wu

In this article, we propose a novel technique for classification of the Murmurs in heart sound. We introduce a novel deep neural network architecture using parallel combination of the Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) based Bidirectional Long…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Shahnawaz Alam , Rohan Banerjee , Soma Bandyopadhyay

Developing a reliable sound detection and recognition system offers many benefits and has many useful applications in different industries. This paper examines the difficulties that exist when attempting to perform sound classification as…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-10 Chelsea Villanueva , Joshua Vincent , Alexander Slowinski , Mohammad-Parsa Hosseini
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