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Lung auscultation is the most effective and indispensable method for diagnosing various respiratory disorders by using the sounds from the airways during inspirium and exhalation using a stethoscope. In this study, the statistical features…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Gökhan Altan , Yakup Kutlu , Adnan Özhan Pekmezci , Serkan Nural

With the periodic rise and fall of COVID-19 and countries being inflicted by its waves, an efficient, economic, and effortless diagnosis procedure for the virus has been the utmost need of the hour. COVID-19 positive individuals may even be…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Saranga Kingkor Mahanta , Darsh Kaushik , Shubham Jain , Hoang Van Truong , Koushik Guha

Chest X-rays play a pivotal role in diagnosing respiratory diseases such as pneumonia, tuberculosis, and COVID-19, which are prevalent and present unique diagnostic challenges due to overlapping visual features and variability in image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-27 Yiming Lei , Michael Nguyen , Tzu Chia Liu , Hyounkyun Oh

Early and reliable detection of heart murmurs is essential for the timely diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases, yet traditional auscultation remains subjective and dependent on expert interpretation. This work investigates artificial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Andrea De Simone , Noemi Giordano , Silvia Seoni , Kristen M. Meiburger , Fabrizio Riente

Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) is a serious and prevalent condition, and acoustic analysis via consumer devices (e.g. smartphones) offers a low-cost solution to screening for it. We present a novel approach for the acoustic identification…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-08 Hector E. Romero , Ning Ma , Guy J. Brown , Amy V. Beeston , Madina Hasan

Objective: We propose an end-to-end CNN-based locating model for pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis in radiographs. This model makes full use of chest radiograph (X-ray) for its improved accessibility, reduced cost and high accuracy for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-23 Jiwei Liu , Junyu Liu , Yang Liu , Rui Yang , Dongjun Lv , Zhengting Cai , Jingjing Cui

Current machine learning models aiming to predict sepsis from Electronic Health Records (EHR) do not account for the heterogeneity of the condition, despite its emerging importance in prognosis and treatment. This work demonstrates the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-11-24 Zina Ibrahim , Honghan Wu , Ahmed Hamoud , Lukas Stappen , Richard Dobson , Andrea Agarossi

This research presents a robust approach to classifying COVID-19 cough sounds using cutting-edge machine-learning techniques. Leveraging deep neural decision trees and deep neural decision forests, our methodology demonstrates consistent…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Rofiqul Islam , Nihad Karim Chowdhury , Muhammad Ashad Kabir

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

Early detection of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is critical for improving patient outcomes, and novel approaches are needed to facilitate early diagnosis. In this study, we explore the use of automatic cough analysis as a…

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

Tuberculosis is a contagious disease which is one of the leading causes of death, globally. The general diagnosis methods for tuberculosis include microscopic examination, tuberculin skin test, culture method, enzyme linked immunosorbent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-25 Dinesh Jackson Samuel , Rajesh Kanna Baskaran

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…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Negin Melek

We developed a deep learning model-based system to automatically generate a quantitative Computed Tomography (CT) diagnostic report for Pulmonary Tuberculosis (PTB) cases.501 CT imaging datasets from 223 patients with active PTB were…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-18 Wei Wu , Xukun Li , Peng Du , Guanjing Lang , Min Xu , Kaijin Xu , Lanjuan Li

Today, data collection has improved in various areas, and the medical domain is no exception. Auscultation, as an important diagnostic technique for physicians, due to the progress and availability of digital stethoscopes, lends itself well…

Background: Mycobacterium Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious bacterial disease presenting similar symptoms to pneumonia; therefore, differentiating between TB and pneumonia is challenging. Therefore, the main aim of this study is proposing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Toktam Khatibi , Ali Farahani , Hossein Sarmadian

Health acoustic sounds such as coughs and breaths are known to contain useful health signals with significant potential for monitoring health and disease, yet are underexplored in the medical machine learning community. The existing deep…

The widespread adoption of CT has notably increased the number of detected lung nodules. However, current deep learning methods for classifying benign and malignant nodules often fail to comprehensively integrate global and local features,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Zhenchen Zhu , Ge Hu , Weixiong Tan , Kai Gao , Chao Sun , Zhen Zhou , Kepei Xu , Wei Han , Meixia Shang , Xiaoming Qiu , Yiqing Tan , Jinhua Wang , Zhoumeng Ying , Li Peng , Wei Song , Lan Song , Zhengyu Jin , Nan Hong , Yizhou Yu

Cough monitoring can enable new individual pulmonary health applications. Subject cough event detection is the foundation for continuous cough monitoring. Recently, the rapid growth in smart hearables has opened new opportunities for such…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Xiyuxing Zhang , Yuntao Wang , Jingru Zhang , Yaqing Yang , Shwetak Patel , Yuanchun Shi

Background: This study proposes a Vision-Language Model (VLM) leveraging the SIGLIP encoder and Gemma-3b transformer decoder to enhance automated chronic tuberculosis (TB) screening. By integrating chest X-ray images with clinical data, the…