Cough into Your Smartphone
An Australian startup named “ResApp” has used learning algorithms to distinguish the sounds of several kinds of respiratory illnesses—pneumonia, asthma, bronchiolitis, COPD—and then interpret coughing sounds via a smartphone. “The basic functionality of the app is for a patient to cough five times with the phone held at about an arms-length. The app recognizes these coughs, extracts them from any background noises, and performs the analysis on the device before the resulting diagnosis is presented. [The phone algorithm] works by matching signatures in a large database of sound recordings with known clinical diagnoses, a process that was created during previous clinical studies carried. . . . The technology was then equipped with machine learning tools that can find the optimum combination of these signatures to create an accurate diagnostic test that can measure severity along with the type of condition.” MORE
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