Is that COVID or Just a Cough?
Newly developed deep learning/AI models that can classify cough sounds as a prescreening tool for COVID-19 show promising results. Cough-based diagnosis is non-invasive, cost-effective, and scalable, and could be a potential game-changer in the fight against COVID-19.
Gowtham Ramesh, a researcher at the Bosch Centre for Data Science and AI at IIT Madras, and Dr. Sandeep Teki, a leader in AI and neuroscience, write about a variety of different research efforts, including experiments by Ankit Pal and Malaikannan Sankarasubbu of Saama’s AI Research Team.