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Covid-19 Artificial Intelligence Diagnosis Using Only Cough Recordings

by jtmarmon on 10/29/20, 5:05 PM with 1 comments

  • by jtmarmon on 10/29/20, 5:38 PM

    Key bits of the abstract (below the fold):

    Abstract— Goal: We hypothesized that COVID-19 subjects, especially including asymptomatics, could be accurately discriminated only from a forced-cough cell phone recording using Artificial Intelligence. To train our MIT Open Voice model we built a data collection pipeline of COVID-19 cough recordings through our website (opensigma.mit.edu) between April and May 2020 and created the largest audio COVID

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    Results: When validated with subjects diagnosed using an official test, the model achieves COVID-19 sensitivity of 98.5% with a specificity of 94.2% (AUC: 0.97). For asymptomatic subjects it achieves sensitivity of 100% with a specificity of 83.2%.