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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…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Negin Melek

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…

Chest X-rays are the most commonly performed diagnostic examination to detect cardiopulmonary abnormalities. However, the presence of bony structures such as ribs and clavicles can obscure subtle abnormalities, resulting in diagnostic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-10 Sivaramakrishnan Rajaraman , Ghada Zamzmi , Les Folio , Philip Alderson , Sameer Antani

We give a short introduction to cough detection efforts that were undertaken during the last decade and we describe the solution for automatic cough detection developed for the AioCare portable spirometry system. In contrast to more popular…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-03-26 Mateusz Soliński , Michał Łepek , Łukasz Kołtowski

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

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

Accurate classification of respiratory sounds requires deep learning models that effectively capture fine-grained acoustic features and long-range temporal dependencies. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are well-suited for extracting…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Nouhaila Fraihi , Ouassim Karrakchou , Mounir Ghogho

Audio signals generated by the human body (e.g., sighs, breathing, heart, digestion, vibration sounds) have routinely been used by clinicians as indicators to diagnose disease or assess disease progression. Until recently, such signals were…

Chronic cough disorders are widespread and challenging to assess because they rely on subjective patient questionnaires about cough frequency. Wearable devices running Machine Learning (ML) algorithms are promising for quantifying daily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Lara Orlandic , Jonathan Dan , Jerome Thevenot , Tomas Teijeiro , Alain Sauty , David Atienza

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

Artificial intelligence and deep learning are increasingly applied in the clinical domain, particularly for early and accurate disease detection using medical imaging and sound. Due to limited trained personnel, there is a growing demand…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Shahran Rahman Alve , Muhammad Zawad Mahmud , Samiha Islam , Mohammad Monirujjaman Khan

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 COVID-19 pandemic has affected the world unevenly; while industrial economies have been able to produce the tests necessary to track the spread of the virus and mostly avoided complete lockdowns, developing countries have faced issues…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Björn W. Schuller , Harry Coppock , Alexander Gaskell

The usage of smartphone-collected respiratory sound, trained with deep learning models, for detecting and classifying COVID-19 becomes popular recently. It removes the need for in-person testing procedures especially for rural regions where…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Hao Xue , Flora D. Salim

Crohn's disease and intestinal tuberculosis share many overlapping features such as clinical, radiological, endoscopic, and histological features - particularly granulomas, making it challenging to clinically differentiate them. Our…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Shashwat Gupta , Sarthak Gupta , Akshan Agrawal , Mahim Naaz , Rajanikanth Yadav , Priyanka Bagade

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a significant global health challenge, with pediatric cases posing a major concern. The World Health Organization (WHO) advocates for chest X-rays (CXRs) for TB screening. However, visual interpretation by…

Chest X-ray is a commonly used tool during triage, diagnosis and management of respiratory diseases. In resource-constricted settings, optimizing this resource can lead to valuable cost savings for the health care system and the patients as…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Alexander Philip , Sanya Chawla , Lola Jover , George P. Kafentzis , Joe Brew , Vishakh Saraf , Shibu Vijayan , Peter Small , Carlos Chaccour

Compared with chest X-ray (CXR) imaging, which is a single image projected from the front of the patient, chest digital tomosynthesis (CDTS) imaging can be more advantageous for lung lesion detection because it acquires multiple images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-29 Kyung-Su Kim , Ju Hwan Lee , Seong Je Oh , Myung Jin Chung

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

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