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Monday, August 08, 2022

CellPhone Recorded Coughs Detecting Covid

Maybe other infection laden viruses. 

Artificial intelligence model detects asymptomatic Covid-19 infections through cellphone-recorded coughs

Results might provide a convenient screening tool for people who may not suspect they are infected.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office

Publication Date:October 29, 2020

Asymptomatic people who are infected with Covid-19 exhibit, by definition, no discernible physical symptoms of the disease. They are thus less likely to seek out testing for the virus, and could unknowingly spread the infection to others.

But it seems those who are asymptomatic may not be entirely free of changes wrought by the virus. MIT researchers have now found that people who are asymptomatic may differ from healthy individuals in the way that they cough. These differences are not decipherable to the human ear. But it turns out that they can be picked up by artificial intelligence.

In a paper published recently in the IEEE Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology, the team reports on an AI model that distinguishes asymptomatic people from healthy individuals through forced-cough recordings, which people voluntarily submitted through web browsers and devices such as cellphones and laptops.  ... '

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